WebPro: Postharvest management

Donald Merhaut, floriculture specialist at the University of California, Riverside, created this list of sites that provide postharvest management tips.

* http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Produce/ProduceFacts/#ornamentals

This site provides fact sheets for specific cut flower and foliage crops. Sheets include maturity and quality indices; optimum temperature and relative humidity; rates of respiration and ethylene production rates; responses to ethylene and controlled atmospheres; and physiological and pathological disorders.

* www.oznet.ksu.edu/library/hort2/mf2261.pdf

This site is dedicated to postharvest handling of cut flowers.

* www.chainoflifenetwork.org

Register to use this free site. It’s maintained by George Staby of Perishables Research Organization and is constantly updated.

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* www.uvm.edu/pss/ppp/coh29ph.htm

Visit this site for field-grown cuts and a list of ethylene-sensitive flowers.