PTR-ToF-MS, A Novel, Rapid, High Sensitivity and Non-Invasive Tool to Monitor Volatile Compound Release During Fruit Post-Harvest Storage: The Case Study of Apple Ripening

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2831-2843

  Soukoulis, Christos ^a,c   Cappellin, Luca ^a,b   Aprea, Eugenio ^a   Costa, Fabrizio ^a   Viola, Roberto ^a   Märk, Tilmann D ^b   Gasperi, Flavia ^a   Biasioli, Franco ^a  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apple (Malus domestica); Climacteric post harvest ripening; PTR ToF MS; Volatile compounds

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL CONCENTRATIONS; ETHYLENE CONCENTRATION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PIECEWISE LINEAR MODELING; POSTHARVEST; PTR-TOF-MS; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS;

ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; ETHYLENE; GOLD; GOLD MINES; HARVESTING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FRUITS;

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84883657240     PISSN: 19355130     EISSN: 19355149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11947-012-0930-6     Document Type: Article

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