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Heat treatments for postharvest pest control : theory and practice /
This book, which consists of 13 chapters, provides fundamental and up-to-date published information on thermal treatments for the management of postharvest pests associated with agricultural commodity structures. Specific topics that are covered include: (i) regulatory issues for quarantine and phyt...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA :
CABI Pub.,
2007.
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| Series: | CAB books.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contributors; Reviewers; 1 Introduction; 2 Fundamental Heat Transfer Theory for Thermal Treatments; 3 Temperature Measurement; 4 Physiological Responses of Agricultural Commodities to Heat Treatments; 5 Experimental and Simulation Methods of Insect Thermal Death Kinetics; 6 Biology and Thermal Death Kinetics of Selected Insects; 7 Thermal Control of Fungi in the Reduction of Postharvest Decay; 8 Disinfestation of Stored Products and Associated Structures Using Heat; 9 Considerations for Phytosanitary Heat Treatment Research; 10 Heat with Controlled Atmospheres.