Discrimination of four different postharvest treatments of 'Red Delicious' apples based on their volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions during shelf-life measured by proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS)

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 329-336

  Ciesa, Flavio ^a   Dalla Via, Josef ^a,c   Wisthaler, Armin ^b   Zanella, Angelo ^a   Guerra, Walter ^a   Mikoviny, Tomas ^b   Märk, Tilmann D ^b   Oberhuber, Michael ^a  

^a Laimburg Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c German Culture and Museums Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

'Red Delicious'; Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.); PTR MS; Shelf life; Storage techniques; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882630295     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2013.06.036     Document Type: Article

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