Antioxidant capacity, antioxidant compounds and antioxidant enzyme activities in five date cultivars during development and ripening

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 688-693

  Awad, Mohamed A ^a,b   Al Qurashi, Adel D ^a   Mohamed, Saleh A ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bisir; Phoenix dactylifera; Radical scavenging; Rutab; Tamer

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CULTIVAR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT; GROWTH CURVE; MATURATION; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; RIPENING; WEIGHT;

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 79960414651     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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