Exogenous glycine betaine treatment enhances chilling tolerance of peach fruit during cold storage

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 114, Issue , 2016, Pages 104-110

  Shan, Timin ^a   Jin, Peng ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Huang, Yuping ^a   Wang, Xiaoli ^b   Zheng, Yonghua ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAIYIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Energy; Glycine betaine; Peach fruit; Proline; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952648483     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2015.12.005     Document Type: Article

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