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WHEN work was begun at the Trinidad Low Temperature Research Station in 1928, the immediate problem was to ascertain the keeping and carrying quality of the several banana varieties and hybrids which might be used as substitutes for the Gros Michel (the principal variety of commerce), then threatened by the epidemic spread of Panama disease. Within a few years, however, the very general use to which the Station could be put was recognized both by local agricultural administrations and by shipping companies operating in the Caribbean region, and by request work was in turn extended to tomatoes, limes, grapefruit, oranges, avocados, mangoes, papaws, pineapples, melongenes, cucurbits of various kinds, and to the assortment of vegetables that can be grown in the tropics. To some of these commodities a considerable amount of study has been devoted, and their general cold-storage requirements have now been ascertained with a sufficient degree of precision for practical purposes.
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WARDLAW, C. Storage of Tropical Fruits. Nature 144, 178–181 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144178a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144178a0