Fruit and Vegetable Quality: An Integrated View

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Robert L. Shewfelt, Bernhard Bruckner
CRC Press, 18 avr. 2000 - 352 pages
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.
 

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Quality as a Steering Factor for Innovation in
9
QUALITY AND BREEDINGCULTIVARS
22
CONSUMER PREFERENCES AND BREEDING GOALS
43
Background of the Hedonic Price Analysis
53
References
60
4
67
An Approach to Achieving Consistent Quality
76
Requirements for Future Research
82
Descriptors and Perceptions
166
Individual Differences AnalysisModels that Explain
172
INSTRUMENTAL DATACONSUMER
178
Examples of Relations Between Instrumental
185
HOUSE OF QUALITYAN INTEGRATED VIEW
199
House of Quality
205
Translation of Consumer Needs
211
Conclusions
219

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
85
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Effect of Postharvest Storage Conditions on Textural
91
Physiological Basis for Postharvest Quality
97
Physiology of Storage
106
Pathology
114
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118
SECTION THREE
123
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE QUALITY
144
Application of the Quality Enhancement Model
151
80
153
SECTION FOUR
225
Interpretation of Quality
231
Quality as a Risk Management Tool
242
METHODS AND EXAMPLES OF INTEGRATION
267
Examples of Soft Systems Methodology
280
Whose Problems Have to be Solved?
291
Related Terms
298
References
304
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