Pinking of lettuce

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 145, Issue , 2018, Pages 41-52

  Saltveit, Mikal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Browning; Fresh Cut; Phenolic metabolism; Phenylpropanoid metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049342226     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2018.06.001     Document Type: Article

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