Greenhouse climate control affects postharvest tomato quality

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 354-361

  Farneti, Brian ^a   Schouten, Rob E ^a   Qian, T ^a   Dieleman, J A ^a   Tijskens, L M M ^a   Woltering, Ernst J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CO2; Firmness; Modelling; Semi closed; Sugars; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882639995     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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