Title: Resource: Commercial Storage
Course: RSC_FST1100_CANVASCOURSE > Section: Week 1 (Start Here)

The USDA has a webpage, CommercialStorageIntro, that will lead you to an online publication titled: The Commercial Storage of Fruits, Vegetables, and Florist and Nursery Stocks.

It presents summaries of current storage requirements of fresh fruits, vegetables, cut flowers, and other horticultural crops. This highly expanded edition also includes information on quality characteristics, maturity indices, grading, packaging, pre-cooling, retail display, chilling sensitivity, ethylene production and sensitivity, respiration rates, physiological disorders, post-harvest pathology, quarantine issues, and suitability as fresh-cut product.

It is also known as U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 66.