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individual fruit or vegeta-bles. Fluorescence properties of individual fruits and vegetables change during maturation, ripening, and senescence (Song et al.,

, and machine vision systems may allow de- nition of size and shape parameters (Abbott et al., . Magnetic resonance

imaging(MRI) has been demonstrated to detect internal quality defects, insect infestation of single fruit, and compositional differences between fruit structures

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