A portable non-destructive quality meter for understanding fruit soluble solids in apple canopies

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 732, Issue , 2007, Pages 593-597

  Bessho, Hideo ^a   Kudo, Kazunori ^a   Omori, Junichiro ^a   Inomata, Yuji ^a   Wada, Masato ^a   Masuda, Tetsuo ^b   Nakamoto, Yoichi ^b   Fujisawa, Hiroyuki ^b   Suzuki, Yoshiharu ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR TOHOKU REGION   (Japan)

^c KUBOTA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fruit quality; Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy; Obrix; Portable spectrometer

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 71049186335     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2007.732.88     Document Type: Conference Paper

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