date:Aug 19, 2013
rage. Obenland and Smilanick work for the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the chief intramural scientific research agency of USDA.
In one study, published in 2010 in the journal HortTechnology, Obenland, Smilanick and their colleagues investigated UV (ultraviolet) screening and sorting of oranges. According to Obenland, California packinghouses have used UV screening for more than 50 years to detect spotsabout the size of a quarter, or largerthat glow a bright fluorescent yellow when navel