Vegetables

Modified and Controlled Atmospheres for the Storage, Transportation, and Packaging of Horticultural Commodities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 445-461

  Brecht, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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