Variations in contents of browning substrates and activities of some related enzymes during litchi fruit development

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 555-559

  Sun, Jian ^a,c   Xiang, Xu ^b   Yu, Chunyan ^a   Shi, Jinyu ^a   Peng, Hongxiang ^c   Yang, Bao ^a   Yang, Shaoyu ^a   Yang, En ^a   Jiang, Yueming ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^c NATIONAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER FOR NON FOOD BIOREFINERY   (China)

Author keywords

( ) Epicatechin; Pericarp; Peroxidase; Phenylalanine ammonialyase; Polyphenoloxidase

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVERGREEN TREE; FRUIT; HARVESTING;

LITCHI CHINENSIS;

EID: 63049109752     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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