Non-destructive measurement of moisture and soluble solids content of Mazafati date fruit by NIR spectroscopy

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-179

  Mireei, Seyed Ahmad ^a   Mohtasebi, Seyed Saeid ^a   Massudi, Reza ^b   Rafiee, Shahin ^a   Arabanian, Atoosa Sadat ^b   Berardinelli, Annachiara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Date fruit; Moisture content; Near infrared spectroscopy; Non destructive; Partial least square method; Residual predictive deviation; Soluble solid content

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954670476     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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