Relationships between internal ethylene and optical reflectance in ripening 'Antonovka' apples grown under sunlit and shaded conditions

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 206-209

  Solovchenko, Alexei ^a   Kozhina, Liudmila ^b   Nazarov, Yuri ^b   Gudkovsky, Vladimir ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b IV Michurin Federal Scientific Centre   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Apples; Carotenoids; Chlorophylls; Internal ethylene; Light; Ripening; Storage

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 78249253036     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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