Maintaining quality of fruits and vegetables

Maintaining quality of fruits and vegetables

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Hilgardia 30(11):15-15. DOI:10.3733/ca.v030n11p15. November 1976.

Abstract

A major portion of the estimated $200 million annual losses of fruit and vegetable during shipment and marketing can be attributed to disease caused by less than a dozen fungi and bacteria. Significent progress has been made in controlling these diseases.

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