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Improving Quality and Reducing Losses in Specialty Fruit Crops through Storage Technologies

Objective

(1) Adapt or develop harvest, handling and storage technologies to improve fruit quality, increase consumption and reduce food waste. <br />
(2) Improve our understanding of the biology of fruit quality to further our development of harvest and storage technology and development of new plant materials.

Investigators
Watkins, Christopher
Institution
Cornell University
Start date
2019
End date
2023
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
NYC-145850
Accession number
1017924
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