Physiology and quality response of harvested banana fruit to cold shock

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 154-159

  Zhang, Haiyan ^a   Yang, Shaoyu ^a   Joyce, Daryl C ^b   Jiang, Yueming ^a   Qu, Hongxia ^a   Duan, Xuewu ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Banana; Cold shock treatment; Ethylene; Postharvest life; Softening

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949113842     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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