Fruit & Vegetables

A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the World: Nature's Harvest answers the many questions consumers have about various fruits and vegetables. Providing basic, clear, and understandable information for each produce item, this reference guide gives you a synopsis of the fru..

The postharvest handling of fresh fruits and vegetables plays a critical role in facilitating a continuous supply of high-quality fresh produce to the consumer. Many new technologies developed and refined in recent years continue to make possible an ever-expanding supply of fresh products. This volu..

Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables are currently one of the hottest commodities in the food market of industrialized countries, but fresh-cut produce deteriorates faster than the correspondent intact produce. Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables: Technology, Physiology, and Safety covers the basics of fresh..

This book focuses on quality of produce by addressing its various aspects. The topics address quality issues ranging from cultural practices to postharvest handling, retailing, and home consumption. The immediate benefit of this book is improved understanding of specific quality issues and marketing..

This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary reference source for the various aspects of fruit ripening and postharvest behavior. It focuses on the postharvest physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology of ripening and provides a ripening overview of fruits and vegetables. It describes ..

Rice Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering..