HEAT TREATMENTS FOR POSTHARVEST PEST CONTROL

Tang (biological systems engineering, Washington State University) provides information on thermal treatments for eliminating postharvest pests in agricultural commodities, covering regulatory issues, temperature measurement, heat transfer, physiological responses of plants, insects, and pathogens to heat, and current and potential quarantine treatments based on hot air, hot water, and radio frequency energy. Contributors come from the fields of engineering, entomology, and plant physiology, and are affiliated with research universities and government research institutes in the US, Israel, Australia, and Canada. The audience for the book includes students and researchers in horticulture, entomology, food science, and agricultural engineering, as well as government officials regulating domestic and international trade. The book is distributed in the US by Oxford University Press. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)