Heat treatments to reduce decay

Environmentally Friendly Technologies for Agricultural Produce Quality

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 11-42

  Ben Yeoshua, Shimshon ^a   Porat, Ron ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

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