Chapter 11
Role of Pesticides in Produce Production, Preservation,
Quality, and Safety........................................................................... 341
Katerina Masˇtovská
Chapter 12
Microbial Ecology of Spoilage........................................................ 379
M. L. Bari, Y. Sabina, S. Kawamoto, and K. Isshiki
Chapter 13
Attachment of Bacterial Human Pathogens on Fruit and
Vegetable Surfaces ........................................................................... 421
Dike O. Ukuku, Ching-Hsing Liao, and Shirley Gembeh
Chapter 14
Bacterial Infiltration and Internalization in Fruits
and Vegetables .................................................................................. 441
Aubrey Mendonca
Chapter 15
Mechanisms of Microbial Spoilage of Fruits and Vegetables ........ 463
Brendan A. Niemira, Christopher H. Sommers, and Dike O. Ukuku
Chapter 16
Role of Fluorescent Pseudomonads and Their Pectolytic
Enzymes in Spoilage of Fresh and Fresh-Cut Produce .................. 483
Ching-Hsing Liao and Dike Ukuku
Chapter 17
Microbial Metabolites in Fruits and Vegetables.............................. 505
Keith Warriner and Svetlana Zivanovic
Chapter 18
Microstructure of Produce Degradation .......................................... 529
Delilah F. Wood, Syed H. Imam, Glen P. Sabellano, Paul R. Eyerly,
William J. Orts, and Gregory M. Glenn
Chapter 19
Structure and Function of Complex Carbohydrates in Produce
and Their Degradation Process ........................................................ 563
Syed Imam, Justin Shey, Delilah Wood, Greg Glenn, Bor-Sen Chiou,
Maria Inglesby, Charles Ludvik, Artur Klamczynski, and William Orts
Chapter 20
Temperature Effects on Produce Degradation................................. 599
Justin R. Morris and Pamela L. Brady
Index
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