A postharvest dip treatment with lysophosphatidylethanolamine, a natural phospholipid, may retard senescence and improve the shelf life of banana fruit

HortScience

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1035-1040

  Ahmed, Zienab F R ^a   Palta, Jiwan P ^b  

^a South Valley University   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Banana; Fruit firmness; Fruit respiration; Fruit ripening; LPE; Lysophosphatidylethanolamine; Membrane leakage; Senescence; Shelf life

Indexed keywords

PUNCTUM BLANDIANUM;

EID: 84939544670     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: 23279834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.50.7.1035     Document Type: Article

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