Effects of Harvesting Stages and Storage Temperatures on Pigment Contents in Fresh Fig of Four Iranian Cultivars

Subject Areas : Journal of Chemical Health Risks

Hamid Zare ¹ , Masoumeh Marzoughi Sotoudeh ²

1 - Fig Research Station, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Training Center, AREEO, Estahban, Iran
2 - Deptartment of Horticultural Science, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2018-02-21 Accepted : 2018-10-29 Published : 2018-06-27

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