A near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and chemometric approach to improve apple fruit quality management: A case study on the cultivars "cripps pink" and "braeburn"

Molecules

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 13603-13619

  Eisenstecken, Daniela ^a,b   Panarese, Alessia ^a   Robatscher, Peter ^a   Huck, Christian W ^b   Zanella, Angelo ^a   Oberhuber, Michael ^a  

^a Laimburg Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry Laimburg 6 Pfatten ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apples; Firmness; Internal quality; Malus x domestica "braeburn"; Malus x domestica "cripps pink"; Near infrared spectroscopy; NIRS; Sugars

Indexed keywords

FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MALUS; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL;

FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; MALUS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 84941236782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules200813603     Document Type: Article

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