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| Author(s): | R. L. Shewfelt and B. Bruckner |
| Publisher: | Technomic |
| ISBN: | 1566767857 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 330pp | |
| Price: | $89.95 |
| Review Date: | 31 May 2000 |
| Review: | This book, the result of the conference in Potsdam, Germany in 1997, gives concise descriptions of important decisions facing postharvest handlers, a guide to the literature in specific fields, an assessment of present knowledge and research needs, and specific examples of product-based research. The book is divided into four sections. The first discusses contemporary issues such as handling and distribution to preserve freshness and methods of breeding crops for specific quality characteristics. The second part looks at the cultural, environmental, handling and storage techniques that are currently available to handlers and distributors. Part three gives a perspective on fruit and vegetable quality – taking in the consumer, the ultimate judge of quality. The last section gives four views of how studies have been integrated across disciplines up to now and how they can be applied in the future to obtain a more integrated approach to vegetable quality. |