Plant chemicals in post harvest technology for management of fungal, mycotoxin and insect contamination of food commodities

Plant Defence: Biological Control

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 195-208

  Dubey, N K ^a   Singh, Priyanka ^a   Prakash, Bhanu ^a   Mishra, Prashant K ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Food preservatives; Mycotoxins; Pests; Post harvest technology; Semiochemicals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987649485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1933-0_8     Document Type: Chapter

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