Fruit quality characteristics that affect consumer preferences for satsuma mandarins

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1664-1669

  Campbell, Benjamin L ^a,b   Nelson, Robert G ^a,b   Ebel, Robert C ^a,b   Dozier, William A ^a,b   Adrian, John L ^a,b   Hockema, Brandon R ^a,b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citrus unshiu; Conjoint analysis; Market segmentation

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSUMER PREFERENCES; FRUIT QUALITY;

FRUITS;

COASTS; FRUITS; PLANTS;

CITRUS; CITRUS UNSHIU;

EID: 9244227133     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.7.1664     Document Type: Article

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