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Plant Growth Regulators

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Postharvest Management Approaches for Maintaining Quality of Fresh Produce

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This chapter reviews the use of plant growth regulator for fresh vegetable and fruit quality. Endogenous plant growth regulators, also named phytohormones, are important regulator of many functions in plant development and physiology. First, this chapter describes the five major classes of PGR (auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, abscisic acid, and ethylene) including their nature, physiological functions, and horticultural practices. Some synthetic PGRs are used extensively to control sensorial and nutritional quality and ripening or senescence processes. So we focus this chapter on the effects of exogenously PGR applied in pre- and postharvest to maintain the quality of fresh produce.

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  1. Food Science and Technology, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

    Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui

  2. Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, A.C., Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

    Jesus Fernando Ayala Zavala

  3. USDA-ARS, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA

    Cheng-An (Andy) Hwang

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LOPEZ-LAURI, F. (2016). Plant Growth Regulators. In: Siddiqui, M., Ayala Zavala, J., Hwang, CA. (eds) Postharvest Management Approaches for Maintaining Quality of Fresh Produce. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23582-0_8

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