Carotenoids content in ripe raw and processed (Sauce) berries of high pigment tomato hybrids

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 758, Issue , 2007, Pages 173-180

  Lenucci, M S ^a   Caccioppola, A ^a   Durante, M ^a   Serrone, L ^a   Piro, G ^a   Dalessandro, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

? carotene; Antioxidants; Lycopene; Lycopersicon esculentum; Processing

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 70449367109     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2007.758.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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