Hot water dip and preconditioning treatments to reduce chilling injury and maintain postharvest quality of Navel and Valencia oranges during cold quarantine

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 186-191

  Bassal, Magdi ^a   El Hamahmy, Mohamed ^b  

^a Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^b Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Catalase; Chilling injury; Citrus sinensis; Cold quarantine; Conditioning; Hot water; Peroxidase

Indexed keywords

CITRUS SINENSIS;

EID: 79952488051     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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