Color and Antioxidant Characteristics of Some Fresh Fig (Ficus carica L.) Genotypes from Northeastern Turkey

Plant Foods for Human Nutrition

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-276

  Ercisli, Sezai ^a   Tosun, Murat ^a   Karlidag, Huseyin ^b   Dzubur, Ahmed ^c   Hadziabulic, Semina ^c   Aliman, Yasmina ^c  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Dzemal Bijedic University of Mostar   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Bioactive content; Fig; Genotypic diversity; Human health

Indexed keywords

FICUS CARICA;

EID: 84866742331     PISSN: 09219668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11130-012-0292-2     Document Type: Article

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