Ripening-associated changes in the amounts of starch and non-starch polysaccharides and their contributions to fruit softening in three banana cultivars

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1511-1516

  Shiga, Tania M ^a   Soares, Claudinéia A ^a   Nascimento, João Ro ^a   Purgatto, Eduardo ^a   Lajolo, Franco M ^a   Cordenunsi, Beatriz R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cell wall mobilisation; Musa sp.; Starch degradation; Textural changes

Indexed keywords

MONOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; STARCH;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CLASSIFICATION; FRUIT; METABOLISM; MUSA; SOLUBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CELL WALL; FRUIT; MONOSACCHARIDES; MUSA; POLYSACCHARIDES; SOLUBILITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARCH;

MUSA SP.;

EID: 79955523565     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.4342     Document Type: Article

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