The University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia USA
532 pages, 227 illustrations,
hardbound. Second printing 1997. $96.00 + postage
ISBN 1-888186-53-4
*While a very small number of books are available, it has been up-dated and replaced by Postharvest Biology (2004), also available from Exon Press.
Dr.
Stanley J. Kays is a professor at The University of Georgia, teaches the
graduate/undergraduate courses in Postharvest Biology, and is authority
on quality attributes of harvested plant products, in particular, flavor
chemistry, insect resistance chemistry and nondestructive quality evaluation.
He has received a number of awards for his research and is currently Chairperson
of the Root and Tuber Crops Section of the International Society for Horticultural
Science. He was recently named an Honorary Scientist by the Rural Development
Administration in South Korea. Dr. Kays has published approximately 160
research papers and three books. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State
University, has had postdoctoral positions in the Biology Department at
Texas A&M University and the Plant Biology Department at the University
College of Northern Wales and a sabbatical in the Department of Applied
Biology, Cambridge University.
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