Postharvest Handling under Extreme Weather Conditions

Postharvest Handling

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 539-559

  Fonseca, Jorge M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374112-7.00020-2     Document Type: Chapter

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