Excerpt from Alternaria Rot Following Chilling Injury of Acorn Squashes They placed the emphasis on high humidity rather than on low temperature as the contributing factor. Yeager and associates (12) reported that Blue Hubbard squashes could not be saved f1om decay at 32° and 40° even with a relative humidity of 40 percent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Chilling Injury and Alternaria Rot of Bell Peppers Lauritzen and Wright (2) stud ied the efiect of temperatures and humidities on the development of botrytis rot, especially that from artificial inoculation.2 A review of their publication is included here because of the statement that 0 C. (32 F. And a relative humidity of 90 percent was the most favorable condition tested for storage of pep pers. Lauritzen and Wright were not aware of chilling 1nj ury. Theyfound that decay developed at 32 F but considered it would develop too slowly to be a problem. The peppers were not held at higher temperatures following low-temper ature storage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Note for the electronic edition: This draft has been assembled from information prepared by authors from around the world. It has been submitted for editing and production by the USDA Agricultural Research Service Information Staff and should be cited as an electronic draft of a forthcoming publication. Because the 1986 edition is out of print, because we have added much new and updated information, and because the time to publication for so massive a project is still many months away, we are making this draft widely available for comment from industry stakeholders, as well as university research, teaching and extension staff.