Tensile strength and relaxation of tomato skin by a loop technique

International Agrophysics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 153-157

  Rajabipour, A ^a   Zariefard, M R ^b   Dodd, G T ^b   Norris, E R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cracking; Relaxation; Tensile strength; Tomato skin

Indexed keywords

TENSILE STRENGTH;

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 7044251935     PISSN: 02368722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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