Drying time and post-harvest quality of onion bulbs submitted to artificial curing

ABSTRACT After harvest, onion bulbs are submitted to curing, whose objective is to provide loss of moisture in leaves and drying of outer layers (peel) of bulbs, reaching attractive external coloration and reduction in the intensity of rottenness. The objective of this study was to use an air treatm...

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Main Authors: Deise Silva Castro Pimentel Cardoso, Ariana Mota Pereira, Teresa Drummond Correia, Fernando Luiz Finger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal De Viçosa
Series:Revista Ceres
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-737X2016000600822&lng=en&tlng=en