Quantitative and qualitative comparison of antioxidant activity in the flavedo tissue of three cultivars of citrus fruit under cold stress

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 402-406

  Mohammadian, Mansour Afshar ^a   Largani, Zahra Khosravi ^a   Sajedi, Reza Hasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUILAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

APX; Citrus fruit; Cold stress; POD; ROS; SOD

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; CITRUS LIMON; CITRUS SINENSIS; CITRUS UNSHIU;

EID: 84861802244     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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