date:May 20, 2013
New technology offers the promise of reducing billions of dollars of losses that occur each year from the silent, invisible killer of fruits, vegetables and cut flowers a gas whose effects are familiar to everyone who has seen bananas and other fruit ripen too quickly and rot. That's the conclusion of an article in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews.
Nicolas Keller, Marie-Nolle Ducamp, Didier Robert and Valrie Keller explain that fruits, vegetables and flowers are still alive after harvest. They