List price   € 92   Buy this book   This title is available in ActaHort USB-drive, e-Acta, and print format Convener   C.-O. Ottosen  Editors   C.-O. Ottosen, B. Grout, R. Mueller  Publication date   31 December 2009  ISBN   978-90-66056-92-3  ISSN   0567-7572 (print)   2406-6168 (electronic)  Number of articles   54  Volumes   1  Place   Odense, Denmark  Online articles: CONSUMER ACCEPTABILITY IN FLOWER CHAINS: HOW CAN WE DETERMINE WHAT THE FINAL CUSTOMERS REALLY WANT? (O. van Kooten, E. Kuiper) CAUSES OF QUALITY LOSS OF CUT FLOWERS - A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF POSTHARVEST TREATMENTS (U. van Meeteren) IMPROVING POSTHARVEST QUALITY: THE ADDED VALUE OF AUCTION RESEARCH (A. van Nieuwenhoven) THE APPLICATION OF UAE TECHNIQUE IN POSTHARVEST STUDIES OF CUT FLOWERS (S. Spinarova, L. Hendriks, F. Steinbacher) THE EFFECTS OF RETAIL DISPLAY CONDITIONS ON POSTHARVEST PERFORMANCE OF CUT GERBERA JAMESONII (T.A. Nell, R.T. Leonard, A.M. Alexander) THIDIAZURON, A NON-METABOLIZED CYTOKININ, SHOWS PROMISE IN EXTENDING THE LIFE OF POTTED PLANTS (C.-Z. Jiang, L. Wu, A.J. Macnish, A. King, M. Yi, M.S. Reid) MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY (A.K. Hvoslef-Eide) GENETICALLY MODIFIED FLOWERING POTTED PLANTS WITH REDUCED ETHYLENE SENSITIVITY (H. Mibus, S. Sriskandarajah, M. Serek) IDENTIFICATION OF ETHYLENE INDUCED GENES IN ABSCISSION ZONES OF ROSA HYBRIDA L. BY USE OF DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY (N. Ahmadi, H. Mibus, M. Serek) IMPROVED POSTHARVEST LIFE AND ETHYLENE TOLERANCE IN KALANCHOE BLOSSFELDIANA TRANSFORMED WITH ROL-GENES OF AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES (B. Christensen, R. Müller) NICOTIANA MUTABILIS – A NOVEL SYSTEM FOR STUDYING ETHYLENE-MEDIATED FLORAL SENESCENCE (A.J. Macnish, M.S. Reid, C.-Z. Jiang) TRANSFORMATION OF KALANCHOE BLOSSFELDIANA FOR ETHYLENE INSENSITIVITY (M. Sanikhani, H. Mibus, B.M. Stummann, M. Serek) IMPROVEMENT IN QUALITY MANAGEMENT OF ORNAMENTALS (C.-O. Ottosen) EFFECT OF (CHANGES IN) AIR HUMIDITY ON TRANSPIRATION AND (ADAPTATION OF) STOMATAL CLOSURE OF TRADESCANTIA LEAVES DURING WATER STRESS (U. van Meeteren, A. Rezaei Nejad, J. Harbinson) EFFECTS OF GROWTH CONDITIONS ON POSTHARVEST BOTRYTIS INFECTION IN GERBERA – A NURSERY COMPARISON (G. Slootweg, O. Körner) INFLUENCE OF SUCROSE PULSING AND SUCROSE IN VASE SOLUTION ON FLOWER QUALITY OF MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE LOW TEMPERATURE (MALT)-STORED GLADIOLUS CUT SPIKES (A. Singh, J. Kumar, P. Kumar) WAXFLOWER-BOTRYTIS PATHOSYSTEM: A MODEL FOR PATHOGEN INDUCED FLOWER ABSCISSION? (S.Q. Dinh, D.C. Joyce, A.J. Macnish) THE USE OF COLD STORAGE AS A SCHEDULING AID IN BEDDING PLANT PRODUCTION (R.D. Taylor, J. Hill, B.W.W. Grout, W. Brough) GROWING CONDITIONS, PLANT APPEARANCE AND POSTHARVEST PERFORMANCE (K.K. Petersen, E. Rosenqvist, N.E. Andersson, R. Müller) PETAL SENESCENCE: NEW CONCEPTS FOR AGEING CELLS (E.J. Woltering, W. van Doorn) RESPONSES OF TREE-PEONY CULTIVARS TO EXOGENOUS ETHYLENE AND 1-MCP ( Peiyi Jia, Li Dong, Lin Zhou) EFFECT OF METHYL JASMONATE VAPOUR TREATMENT AND SUCROSE SOLUTIONS ON VASE LIFE AND NON-STRUCTURAL CARBOHYDRATE CONCENTRATION IN PETALS OF CUT 'FIRST RED' ROSES (S.G. Foukaraki, L.A. Terry, N.E. Pompodakis, M.D. Papadimitriou, D.E. Lydakis) ETHYLENE REGULATES PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH (PCD) ASSOCIATED WITH PETAL SENESCENCE IN CARNATION FLOWERS (K. Ichimura, T. Yamada, S. Yoshioka, U.K. Pun, K. Tanase, H. Shimizu-Yumoto) 24FLORAL FRAGRANCE AND ETHYLENE ACTION (T.A. Colquhoun, D.G. Clark) OBSTRUCTION OF WATER UPTAKE IN CUT CHRYSANTHEMUM STEMS AFTER DRY STORAGE: ROLE OF WOUND-INDUCED INCREASE IN ENZYME ACTIVITIES AND AIR EMBOLI (U. van Meeteren, L. Arévalo-Galarza) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ANTIOXIDANTS IN THE CONTROL OF SENESCENCE OF CUT LEAVES OF HOSTA 'MINIMA GLAUCA' (E. Skutnik, J. Rabiza-Swider , A. Lukaszewska) AN ALTERNATIVE POSTHARVEST HANDLING STRATEGY FOR CUT FLOWERS – DRY HANDLING AFTER HARVEST (A.J. Macnish, A. de Theije, M.S. Reid, C.-Z. Jiang) ASSESSMENT OF PETAL COLOUR CHANGE IN CUT-FLOWER CARNATION 'SANTORINI' DURING VASE LIFE (R.D. Taylor, J. Hill, B.W.W. Grout) EFFECTS OF PREHARVEST CONDITIONS ON POSTHARVEST CHARACTERISTICS OF LILIES AND SUNFLOWERS (E.Y. Possiel, J.M. Dole) EFFECTS OF ANTI-ETHYLENE COMPOUNDS INCLUDED IN NANOSPONGES IN IMPROVING THE POSTHARVEST LONGEVITY OF CARNATION (DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS) AND BUTTERCUP (RANUNCULUS ASIATICUS) CUT FLOWERS (M. Devecchi, F. Trotta, L. Seglie, Y.J. Kim, C. Lava, M. Dolci, V. Scariot) EFFECTS OF POSTHARVEST NANO-SILVER TREATMENTS ON CUT-FLOWERS (J. Liu, Z. Zhang, D.C. Joyce, S. He, J. Cao, P. Lv) CULTIVAR DIFFERENCES IN THE STOMATAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CUT ROSES GROWN AT HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITY (D. Fanourakis, A. Tapia, E. Heuvelink, S.M.P. Carvalho) INFLUENCE OF ETHANOL ON THE STORAGE LIFE AND BUD OPENING OF CARNATION (DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS L.) FLOWERS DURING WET STORAGE (A. Ebrahimzadeh, E. Hosseinzadeh, S. Jiménez, M.T. Lao) THE EFFECT OF UNIFORM AND FLUCTUATING TEMPERATURE ON THE RESPIRATION AND VASE LIFE OF 'AKITO' ROSES (S.O. Tshwenyane, C.F.H. Bishop) EFFECT OF TIME OF HARVEST, WATER QUALITY AND CUT FLOWER FOOD ON VASE LIFE OF CYCLAMEN CUT FLOWERS (D. Neumaier, E. Bausbach, M. Simon, M. Tisch, T. Winkelmann) INPSR26 ENCODING A PUTATIVE MEMBRANE PROTEIN IS INVOLVED IN PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH DURING PETAL SENESCENCE OF JAPANESE MORNING GLORY (IPOMOEA NIL) (K. Shibuya, T. Yamada, K. Shimizu, K. Ichimura) APPLICATION OF COLD NEUTRON AND SYNCHROTRON X-RAY IMAGING TO INVESTIGATE ROSE BENT NECK SYNDROME (U. Matsushima, W. Graf, S. Zabler, N. Kardjilov, W.B. Herppich) COULD WOUND-INDUCED XYLEM PEROXIDE CONTRIBUTE TO THE POSTHARVEST LOSS OF HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY IN STEMS? (D.W. Etalo, J. Harbinson, U. van Meeteren) EFFECT OF LANTHANE ON QUALITY OF TULIP FLOWER 'ILE DE FRANCE' (M. Ramírez, F.C. Gómez-Merino, L.I. Trejo-Téllez, I. Hernández, B. Osorio, A.M. Castillo, E. Hernández) GAS EXCHANGE OF FLOWER BUDS AND WATER TRANSPORT CAPACITY OF THE PEDUNCLE OF TWO CUT ROSES DURING VASE LIFE (W. Graf, W.B. Herppich, S. Huyskens-Keil, H. Grüneberg) IDENTIFICATION OF GLADIOLUS CULTIVARS BASED ON SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE OF PETALS (A.J. Steidle Neto, J.A.S. Grossi, F.L. Finger, S.O. Ferreira) INFLUENCE OF SHORT-TERM STORAGE TEMPERATURE AND DURATION OF CANNA RHIZOMES ON SUBSEQUENT GREENHOUSE FORCING (M.G. Blanchard, E.S. Runkle) STORAGE OF JASMINE (JASMINUM SAMBAC) IN PASSIVE MAP (A. Singh, B.K. Dhaduk, T. Ahlawat) POSTHARVEST PERFORMANCE OF TWO MEDITERRANEAN SPECIES USED AS BOUQUET FILLERS (A.I. Darras, N.E. Pompodakis, M.D. Papadimitriou, A. Akoumianaki-Ioannidou) QUALITY OF CUT TULIP SP. WITH DIFFERENT NUTRITION SOURCES (B. Osorio, L.I. Trejo, J.L. González, M.N. Rodríguez, S. Jiménez, M.T. Lao) CONTROL OF SENESCENCE IN CUT SHOOTS OF ASPARAGUS DENSIFLORUS 'MYRIOCLADUS' (J. Rabiza-Swider, E. Skutnik, A. Lukaszewska) EFFECT OF COOL AND WET STORAGE ON POSTHARVEST PERFORMANCE OF NERINE SARNIENSIS CV. RED SCAPES (F. Gul, I. Tahir) EFFECT OF DIFFERENT MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING (MAP) FILMS AND COLD STORAGE TEMPERATURES (5, 10 AND 15°C) ON KEEPING QUALITY OF GERBERA (GERBERA JAMESONII) FLOWERS (T. Patel, A. Singh) EFFECT OF HARVEST-TIME AND POSTHARVEST TREATMENT ON THE QUALITY OF OPEN-GROWN FLOWERING PEACH BRANCHES ( Shuying Li, Wenhua He, Liandi Zhou, Li Dong) ROSE FLOWER LONGEVITY IN RESPONSE TO ETHYLENE AND 1-METHYLCYCLOPROPENE (1-MCP) (R.J. da Rocha Batista, J.A.S. Grossi, J.I. Ribeiro Junior, J.G. Barbosa, F.L. Finger) LEAF TREATMENTS TO IMPROVE CUT FLOWER QUALITY IN EASTER LILY AND IN ASIATIC AND ORIENTAL HYBRID LILY CULTIVARS (A. Ballarin, D. Prisa, A. Grassotti, G. Burchi, F. Pierandrei) LIGNIN CONTENT AND STEM BENDING INCIDENCE ON CUT GERBERA FLOWERS (A. Ferrante, G. Serra) POSTHARVEST CONSERVATION OF CUT STEMS OF GENISTA MONOSPERMA 'GABRIELLA' IN CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND PRESERVATIVE SOLUTIONS (M. Devecchi, R. Giusta, L. Seglie, W. Gaino, L. Marcenaro, D. Maccario, V. Scariot) VARIATION IN ETHYLENE PRODUCTION AMONG CARNATION NEW CULTIVARS (A. Ebrahimzadeh, M. Jamilena, S. Jiménez, M.T. Lao) EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ON SOME SENESCENCE PARAMETERS DURING DRY STORAGE OF CUT FLOWERS OF GERBERA 'SUZANNE' (M.F. Berlingieri Durigan, B.-H. Mattiuz)