Quantifying lycopene synthesis and chlorophyll breakdown in tomato fruit using remittance VIS spectroscopy

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 96, Issue , 2014, Pages 53-63

  Schouten, Rob E ^a   Farneti, Brian ^a,b   Tijskens, L M M ^a   Alarcón, A Algarra ^a,c   Woltering, Ernst J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Kinetic modelling; Lycopene; Remittance VIS spectroscopy; Solanum lycopersicum; STAY GREEN proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901466162     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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