Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View
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Summary
Improved quality requires integration across business functions and scientific disciplines. Based on this premise, Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View presents 15 unique perspectives on achieving greater quality and guidance for a more integrated approach to postharvest handling and fruit and vegetable research.
Designed for anyone involved in the management, production, handling, distribution, or processing of fruits and vegetables, it provides concise descriptions of important issues, roadmaps to the literature in specific fields, assessments of current knowledge and research needs, and specific examples of product-based research. Your guide to the dynamic developments in integrating fruit and vegetable quality projects, Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View also presents a range of options for achieving better coordination of research across scientific disciplines.
Table of Contents
Preface
R. L. Shewfelt and B. Brückner
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Food Supply Chains: From Productivity toward Quality, W.M.F. Jongen
Quality and Breeding - Cultivars, Genetic Engineering, P. Wehling
Consumer Preferences and Breeding Goals, S. Pecher and M. von Oppen
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Effects on the Quality of Stored Apple Fruit, D. S. Johnson and M. S. Ridout
Environmental Effects on Product Quality, M. Schreiner, S. Huyskens-Keil, A. Krumbein, I. Schonhof and M. Linke
Postharvest Handling and Storage of Vegetables, T. Nilsson
QUALITY
Acceptability, L. M. M. Tijskens
Fruit and Vegetable Quality, R. L. Shewfelt
Consumer Preference, Z. Andani and H. J. H. MacFie
Instrumental Data - Consumer Acceptance, B. Brückner and H. Auerswald
House of Quality - An Integrated View of Fruit and Vegetable Quality, A. C. Bech
AN INTEGRATED VIEW
Economics of Quality, W. J. Florkowski
Integrated Quality Management Applied to the Processed Vegetables Industry, J. Viaene, X. Gellynck and W. Verbeke
Methods and Examples of Integration, S. E. Prussia
Integrating Problem-Oriented Research, R. Kuchenbuch, B. Brückner, J. Rühlmann, and B. Röger
A More Integrated View, R. L. Shewfelt and L.M.M. Tijskens
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