Rupture strength of brown rice varieties as affected by moisture content and loading rate

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1239-1246

  Bagheri, I ^a   Dehpour, M B ^a   Payman, S H ^a   Zareiforoush, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brown rice; Loading rate; Moisture content; Rupture force; Variety.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857676110     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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