Potential of Nitric Oxide as a postharvest technology

Title: Potential of Nitric Oxide as a postharvest technology
Creator: Wills, Ron B. H.
Relation: Advances in Postharvest Fruit and Vegetable Technology p. 191-210
Relation: Contemporary Food Engineering
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b18489-10
Publisher: CRC Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: Nitric oxide (NO) is a colorless, highly reactive free radical gas. Its production as an industrial byproduct or vehicle pollutant has long been associated with harmful effects on animals, plants, and the environment. However, NO is also synthesized naturally with major sources being through soil microbial activity and lightning discharges, with a meaningful proportion from burning vegetation, which includes discharges from cigarette smoke (Leshem 2000). An important rapid reaction of NO is with atmospheric oxygen and ozone. The reaction has adverse environmental effects through reducing ozone in the stratosphere and through the condensation of the resulting nitrogen oxides to generate acid rain (Casiday and Frey 1998).
Subject: nitrogen oxide (NO); acid rain; vehicle pollutants; burning vegetation; cigarette smoke
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1317058
Identifier: uon:23322
Identifier: ISBN:9781482216967
Language: eng

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