Characterization of Slovenian apples with respect to their botanical and geographical origin and agricultural production practice

Food Technology and Biotechnology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-116

  Bat, Karmen Bizjak ^a   Vidrih, Rajko ^b   Nečemer, Marijan ^c   Vodopivec, Branka Mozetič ^d   Mulič, Ines ^a   Kump, Peter ^c   Ogrinc, Nives ^c  

^a Fructal dd ^*  (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Agricultural practice; Apples; Botanical Origin; Geographical origin; Slovenia; Stable isotopes; Total reflection X ray fluorescence (TXRF) spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861934037     PISSN: 13309862     EISSN: 13342606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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