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Wound healing, keeping quality, and compositional changes during curing and storage of sweet potatoes

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  • Morris, Leonard L.
  • Mann, Louis K.

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California’s mild climate has led to handling and storage practices with sweet potatoes that do not necessarily provide optimum conditions for wound healing. Experiments were conducted during a four-year period with three varieties on San Joaquin Valley farms to determine whether a curing period in a warm house, such as is customary in other areas, would favor wound healing and reduce storage losses and quality changes. A two-week curing period in a warm house, with a temperature of around 85° F and high relative humidity, was compared with a similar period in a field pile, the method commonly used in California, and with direct placement in an unheated storage house.

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  • Morris, Leonard L. & Mann, Louis K., 1955. "Wound healing, keeping quality, and compositional changes during curing and storage of sweet potatoes," Hilgardia, California Agricultural Experiment Station, vol. 24(7).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:hilgar:381706
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