Acetyl salicylic acid alleviates chilling injury and maintains nutritive and bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity during postharvest storage of pomegranates

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 136-142

  Sayyari, Mohammad ^a   Castillo, Salvador ^b   Valero, Daniel ^b   Díaz Mula, Huertas M ^b   Serrano, María ^b  

^a ILAM UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthocyanins; Antioxidant activity; Organic acids; Phenolics; Punica granatum L.; Quality; Sugars

Indexed keywords

LYTHRACEAE; PUNICA GRANATUM;

EID: 79952191265     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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