Enhancement of Chilling Stress Tolerance of Tomato Fruit by Postharvest Brassinolide Treatment

Food and Bioprocess Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 909-914

  Aghdam, Morteza Soleimani ^a   Mohammadkhani, Nayer ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brassinolide; Chilling injury; Postharvest; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895059238     PISSN: 19355130     EISSN: 19355149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11947-013-1165-x     Document Type: Article

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