Metabiotic associations of molds and Salmonella Poona on intact and wounded cantaloupe rind

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 327-339

  Richards, Glenner M ^a   Beuchat, Larry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cantaloupes; Metabiosis; Plant pathogenic fungi; Postharvest decay; Salmonella

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ARTICLE; CANTALOUPE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPICOCCUM NIGRUM; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; INOCULATION; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; PH; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SALMONELLA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; CUCUMIS MELO; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD PRESERVATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; SALMONELLA; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; YEASTS;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; CLADOSPORIUM; CLADOSPORIUM CLADOSPORIOIDES; CUCUMIS MELO; EPICOCCUM; EPICOCCUM NIGRUM; FUNGI; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GEOTRICHUM; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM; SALMONELLA;

EID: 9944239733     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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