Decreased monodehydroascorbate reductase activity reduces tolerance to cold storage in tomato and affects fruit antioxidant levels

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 502-510

  El Airaj, Hicham ^a   Gest, Noé ^a   Truffault, Vincent ^a   Garchery, Cécile ^a   Riqueau, Gisèle ^a   Gouble, Barbara ^b,c   Page, David ^b,c   Stevens, Rebecca ^a  

^a Researches Center of Avignon   (France)

^b UMR A 408 INRA University of Avignon   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Ascorbate; Chilling; MDHAR; Postharvest; Redox; Solanum lycopersicum; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882986401     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2013.07.035     Document Type: Article

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