Postharvest physiology and hypobaric storage of fresh produce /

• Main Author: Burg, Stanley P., 1933- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
• Subjects: Fruit > Postharvest physiology.; Vegetables > Postharvest physiology.; Fruit > Storage.; Vegetables > Storage.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Environmental Pest Management.; Cleaning, Grading, Handling, Storage and Transport Equipment.; Meat Produce.; Crop Produce.; Aquatic Produce.; Food Storage and Preservation.; Storage Problems and Pests of Food.; Non-food/Non-feed Plant Products.; Biodeterioration.; Fowls.; Insects.; Plants.; Ammonia.; Beef.; Carbon dioxide.; Chicken meat.; Container transport.; Containers.; Cut flowers.; Cuttings.; Cyanides.; Design.; Duck meat.; Endogenous growth regulators.; Environmental control.; Ethylene.; Fish.; Fruits.; Gas exchange.; Heat transfer.; Horse meat.; Horticultural crops.; Hypobaric storage.; Insect control.; Insect pests.; Lamb (meat); Meat.; Oxygen.; Pest control.; Pigmeat.; Plant growth regulators.; Postharvest decay.; Postharvest losses.; Postharvest physiology.; Pot plants.; Poultry.; Shrimps.; Storage decay.; Storage disorders.; Stored products pests.; Stores.; Veal.; Vegetables.; Electronic books.
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Hypobaric (low-pressure; LP) storage offers considerable potential as a method for preventing postharvest losses of horticultural and other perishable commodities, such as fruits, vegetables, cut flowers and meat. This book, written by the world's leading authority on hypobaric storage, provide...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Origins of the LP Concept
• Gas and Vapour Mass Transport
• Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, Ammonia and Cyanide
• Ethylene
• Heat Transfer and Water Loss
• Postharvest Diseases and Physiological Disorders
• Insect Quarantine
• Technical Difficulties Associated with Laboratory Hypobaric Research
• Horticultural Commodity Requirements
• Meat Storage
• Warehouse Design
• Intermodal Container Design
• Conclusions.