Origin, history, production and processing

Litchi and Longan: Botany, Production, and Uses

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-24

  Huang, Xuming ^a   Subhadrabandhu, Suranant ^b   Mitra, Sisir K ^c   Ben Arie, Ruth ^d   Stern, Raphael A ^e  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^d Fruit Storage Research Laboratory   (Israel)

^e MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

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