Fruit and Vegetable Quality

stone fruit, 229

storage, 12, 28, 47, 56–57, 85, 90–94,

96–98, 105, 115, 122, 129–141,

192–194, 211, 299, 303

conditions, 10, 15, 93, 127, 130, 214,

219, 299, 303

facilities, 10

in the home, 153–154, 259

life, 153

organ, 99–100, 111, 113

potential, 98

stability, 36, 304

temperature, 12, 93, 127, 130–141, 212

techniques, 65

strategic

approach, 16, 47–53, 199–220

decision making, 231

development, 160

issue, 251

needs, 209

plan, 281

strawberry, 25, 28, 38–39, 55

street vendor, 271

stress, 97

metabolism, 98

structural equation system, 205

structured attitude model, 159

structure element, 269

suberin, 90–91

suberization, 103

subjective

norm, 159

quality, 202–203, 205, 301

suboptimization, 211

substitution, 234

sub-subsystem, 268, 270

subsystem, 268, 279, 275–281, 283

subtropical origin, 136–137

sucrose, 110, 217–218, 289

sugar, 31–32, 36, 45, 105, 147, 185–190,

193, 195, 217

concentration, 187, 190, 288–299

sugar-acid ratio 32, 188–189, 191

sugarbeet, 25–26, 57

sugarcane, 25

sulfide, 86

sulforaphane, 89

sunflower, 26, 35

sunlight, 272

supermarket, 153, 201, 229, 273, 276,

279–281

superoxide dismutase, 109

supplier, 271, 273–274

supply, 228, 234

and demand equation, 234

supply chain, 1, 3–18, 141–142, 200, 211,

213–214, 246, 248, 251, 260–264,

274, 293, 301

management (SCM), 211, 247–248, 250,

263, 300–301

supply-side management, 249, 301

sustenance, 160

sustainable agriculture, 285

swallowing, 162

sweetening, 102

sweetness, 99, 153–154, 163, 165, 172,

185–191, 195, 218–219, 242

sweet potato, 25

symbolic model, 268

synergy, 214

systems, 267–282

analysis 17

approach, 267, 269, 293

boundary, 274

components, 267

hierarchy, 170

ideas, 270

interaction, 267

thinking, 268–269, 301

synthetic market description, 228

Table Grape Exporting Board, 283

tactical needs, 209

target

market, 283

population, 303

taste, 27–28, 30–31, 45, 53, 59, 86, 102,

125, 129, 158, 179, 183, 185–191,

193, 204, 209–212, 214, 218–219,

242, 257–258, 261, 290

tax, 273, 279

tea, 241

technical

attribute, 298–299, 301, 303

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