Jan 7, 2009
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for writing, best wishes on your studies.

Dec 31, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for writing.

Dec 31, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
I am sorry that you are having trouble linking to the PDF document of the agenda and list of instructors for the Postharvest course in Antayla, Turkey. I will send a it as an attachment to a separate e-mail to you.

Dec 23, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for writing. Our Recommendatins for Maintaining Postharvest Quality of Olive may be helpful to you as you prepare for the Olive Symposium. If you have additional specific questions, you may wish to contact the authors of this Produce Fact directly.

Dec 23, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your interest. We invite you to subscribe to our free monthly E-newsletter where you can learn about our upcoming classes, and about new articles and information we post on our Web site.

Dec 23, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your kind remarks, we appreciate your taking the time to let us know how the information on our site is useful to you in your work. Thanks for writing and best wishes.

Dec 12, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Hello, thank you for your note. We hope to open up registrations for the Postharvest Technology Short Course (June 15-26, 2009) within the next week or so. Please check back on our web site every couple of days for complete information and an opportunity to register.

We're pleased to let you know that registrations are now open for the 2009 Postharvest Technology Short Course!

Dec 12, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your interest in our Web site. We would be happy to consider listing your company in our Postharvest Yellowpages directory. For consideration, please send an email with the company's name, address, web site, and contact information to postharvest@ucdavis.edu.

Dec 12, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Hello, our Web site deals with the postharvest handling of horticultural crops. Here is a link to our Web page about Maintaining the Postharvest Quality of Rambutan.

A second useful page that includes some information about growing the plant is: http://www.rambutan.com/index.html.

Dec 12, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your kind remarks. We appreciate knowing how you use the information on our Web site in your workplace. To subscribe to our free monthly e-newsletter, please use on on-line subscription form.

Dec 1, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
I will be happy to forward your question to Jim Thompson who is knowledgeable about refrigerated trailer transport issues.

Nov 26, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you so much for letting us know how the information you find on our web site is useful to you in your work. We appreciate your taking the time to write!

Nov 26, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
I will be happy to forward your question to Dr. Adel Kader in case he might have some information about this topic. The focus of our web site is the postharvest handling of fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals; it does not include nutritional comparisons between varieties.

Nov 26, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your positive remarks about our free monthly E-Newsletter. We have archived them for about the past year-and-a-half in case you should ever wish to reference to a past issue.

Nov 26, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your feedback. I believe you are thinking of our Library: Postharvest Publications Organized by Topic section. Click on any topic, and you will see a list of publications on this topic. Click on any title in which you might be interested and the full document will open in PDF format.

Nov 12, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your most kind remarks.

Nov 12, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your kind feedback regarding how you use the information from the site. We are adding more information to the site each week, and hope that the information we post will better meet your needs.

Nov 12, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Our Center works with the postharvest handling of fruit, vegetables and ornamentals. Please visit the UC Vegetable Research & Information Center, and also the Environmental Horticulture Research & Information Center web site for additional information.

Oct 31, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your input, you'll be happy to know that our Center does do a lot of work with developing countries.

Oct 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Appearing on each page of the Postharvest Technology Web site, we have a very good search tool that will permit you to search the over 3,000 available documents. Simply type in your key words as noted above (especially "preservation", "heat", and "effect") to pull up all applicable resources.

Oct 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your kind remarks. Our site concentrates on postharvest issues; for production issues please visit our sister site, the UC Vegetable Research & Information Center. Here is a link to their chili pepper information page.

Oct 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
De nada!

Oct 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your positive feedback.

Oct 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for letting us know how the information on the site will be useful to you.

Oct 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your feedback.

Oct 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
You're welcome!

Oct 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your kind remarks.

Oct 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate knowing your background, and what makes the information on the site useful to you. Thanks for writing.

Oct 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for the positive feedback, and thanks to Diane Barrett for mentioning us!

Sep 30, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Here are some resources that may be of assistance to you: 1) Consider purchasing a copy of our Compatible Produce for 7-Day Storage poster and temperature guide charts; 2) Consider purchasing a copy of our Transportation Series (each title includes tables of compatible produce), and 3) Link to our Properties and Recommended Conditions for the Storage of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Hopefully one or more of these resources will be useful to provide you with current and accurate information.

Sep 19, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for taking a minute to write and let us know how the information on our Web site has been useful to you.

Sep 19, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We're happy you find it useful, and appreciate your note.

Sep 19, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you.

Sep 19, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
I have forwarded your question to Drs. Trevor Suslow and Marita Cantwell who authored the Produce Facts: Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality of Celery. They will respond to you directly.

Sep 2, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
You may look up the papers in which you are interested according to their specific topic on our Postharvest Publications Organized by Topic data store. Hope this is helpful.

Sep 2, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for visiting our Web site.

Sep 2, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your comments. Please contact Dr. Beth Mitcham directly regarding your potential interaction with apple projects.

Sep 2, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
I will forward your question to two of our specialists: Dr. Jim Thompson (engineer) and Dr. Marita Cantwell (vegetables).

Sep 2, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your feedback.

Aug 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks!

Aug 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your kind remarks, and we'll be happy to keep you on our list serve. Thanks for writing.

Aug 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your feedback.

Aug 17, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
For some useful information, please see the UC Backyard Orchard page. Additionally, there is a new Home Orchard publication that is filled with great tips and information for the home fruit tree grower.

Aug 6, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
You're welcome! Glad you find it so.

Jul 29, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your observation on this navigational shortcoming, we will have to work on correcting it! Here is the main Peaches & Nectarines photo page that you can link forward to all the full-sized photos, and also navigate back to the text of the produce fact page.

Jul 24, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate knowing how you utilize the information in your work. Thanks for writing.

Jul 24, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
I would like to suggest that you subscribe to our free monthly E-Newsletter as it will provide you with new updates to our website, and articles we post as well as other postharvest events and training opportunities.

Jul 16, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
With over 3,000 documents of postharvest information available on our Web site, we've made a good start! But we're always working on posting more information. Thanks for the positive feedback.

Jul 16, 2008
From: M. E. Reed
Please contact Dr. Adel Kader (aakader@ucdavis.edu) or Dr. Beth Mitcham (ejmitcham@ucdavis.edu) directly with your request. Thank you.

Jul 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for writing to our Guestbook. Your feedback is much appreciated.

Jul 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you very much for your glowing remarks and we appreciate the feedback about how you utilize the information from our Web site in your work.

Jul 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for writing. Our Web site (http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu) covers the postharvest handling of melons (such as cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon). If you are interested in the field production and management of melons, you might like to visit the UC Davis Vegetable Research & Information Center's site and out of the "Veg Info" drop-down list, select cantaloupe or mixed melons for production information.

Jul 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for taking the time to write in our Guestbook.

Jul 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We do not currently have any information about bitter melon's response to 1-MCP posted on our Web site. You may wish to take a look at our chart Properties and Recommended Conditions for Long-Term Storage of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables. Additionally, you may wish to contact Dr. Marita Cantwell directly to see if she knows of any other information that's available from other sources.

Jul 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your feedback. Thanks for taking a moment to write!

Jun 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your kind remarks. We recently celebrated Dr. Kader's retirement from UC Davis with a nice dinner. We consider ourselves fortunate in that we continue to benefit from his knowledge through his instruction at our workshops and also his input to the Web site.

Jun 15, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for letting us know how the information on the site is useful to you!

Jun 5, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you very much for your remarks. We're pleased to know the information on the Web site has been useful to your in your work. Have you ever considered attending the Postharvest Technology Short Course? It offers an amazing opportunity for folks interested in the postharvest handling and processes of numerous produce items.

Jun 5, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your helpful remarks.

May 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We're glad to know that the information on the site is useful to you in your work. To subscribe to our free monthly e-newsletter, click here. If you are interested in the books we have available for purchase, please see our bookstore page.

May 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your feedback.

May 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We truly appreciate your kind remarks! Thank you.

May 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We have many articles posted about the topic of Ornamental Crops, I'm sure you'll find some helpful information by clicking on the link above.

May 28, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your helpful comments. Thanks for taking a moment to write.

May 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for taking the time to write, we appreciate your encouragement.

May 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your note. Best wishes in your academic studies.

May 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for writing.

May 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We very much appreciate your helpful and enthusiastic feedback regarding our Web site. For information about production, please see the Apple Section our sister site, the UC Fruit & Nut Research & Information Center.

May 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for the feedback about how you use the information from our Web site. One additional area that you may find helpful is the Banana Section of the Postharvest Publications Organized by Topic.

May 14, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for taking the time to provide us with some helpful feedback.

May 3, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for taking the time to write to us about your work and how you use our Web site. Here is a link to our Produce Facts pages on Peaches and Cherimoya. Also, you might find using the "Search PTRIC" field useful at finding additional information -- simply type in "peach" or "cherimoya" in the box.

May 3, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for letting us know that the information on our Web site has been useful to you.

May 3, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Here is a link to our Produce Facts: Recommendation for Maintaining Quality of Cucumber. This will assist with information regarding maturity, temperature, humidity, etc.

Apr 16, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
For information about varieties of stone fruits and their harvest dates, please see our sister site: UC Fruit and Nut Research & Information Center.

Apr 16, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your kind remarks. Gracias!

Apr 9, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate know which information on the Web site was useful to you. Thanks for writing.

Apr 4, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Please see our Education: Graduate Programs page for additional information on this subject.

Apr 4, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for writing, please use our Order Form to purchase our publications.

Apr 3, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your feedback. Under our Produce Facts: Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality you can check out the guidelines provided by individual commodities.

Apr 3, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for letting us know how the information on our Web site was useful to you in your workplace. We hope you provided appropriate copyright acknowledgement as detailed on our Legal Notices page. Thanks for writing.

Mar 21, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your feedback very much. Most of our videos are only available via YouTube UCD Postharvest site, you can follow the links from our Video Library page. If you have a video of particular interest, please let us know the specific title. A few of them are available for purchase.

Mar 20, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Please see our Produce Facts: Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality of Pomegranate, and also the associated photo links. If you have additional questions, please contact Dr. Carlos Crisosto or Dr. Beth Mitcham. Thank you.

Mar 19, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We're pleased to hear that these publications translated into Arabic are useful to you.

Mar 7, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your taking the time to write in our Guestbook. We offer the information on the site to educate folks about the ways they can optimize the postharvest handling of their produce.

Mar 7, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
To learn more about mango ripening, you might be interested in attending our May 20, 2008 "Fruit Ripening and Ethylene Management Workshop." Additionally, we offer the publication "Management of Fruit Ripening" (binder) available for purchase if you are unable to attend the workshop. This binder includes quite a bit of information about ripening mangos. Thanks for your kind remarks, and best wishes for your company.

Mar 4, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Glad you find it so.

Mar 4, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for your kind remarks, we're working on incorporating more photos.

Mar 4, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We appreciate your feedback. Dr. Cook is a wonderful resource for all ag economic topics. We'll be sure to pass along your compliments to her.

Mar 4, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for taking moment to write.

Mar 4, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Glad to hear the information was helpful to you.

Feb 27, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your kind remarks.

Feb 27, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We're pleased you find the information useful, thanks for taking a moment to provide us with your feedback.

Feb 20, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
We cover this topic annually at the Postharvest Technology Short Course, and post the updated PDF of the presentation for about 30 days after the end of the course (if you wish, check back during the month of July). I would encourage you to type "biotechnology" into the search field (Search PTRIC) that appears near the bottom of each page of our Web site. Also, here is a link to the Biotechnology topic listings from our Postharvest Publications Organized by Topic section of our Postharvest Library.

Feb 20, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thank you for your interest in the 2008 Postharvest Technology Short Course, scheduled for June 16-27, 2008 at the UC Davis campus. If you wish to email postharvest@ucdavis.edu us your mailing address, we would be happy to mail you the course brochures. Additionally, you can take a look at the complete information on the Short Course Web page. You can also see the complete brochure (that includes prices for lodging, etc.) as a PDF document. The 2-week course is more than half full, we encourage your timely registration in order to reserve a spot for this year's course.

Feb 8, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Here is a link to our Postharvest Graduate Program page (not available via Distance Learning). Here is a link to the UC Davis Distance Learning page with a full explanation of the programs available via the campus's distance learning system. Best wishes with your goals.

Feb 8, 2008
From: M.E. Reed
Thanks for letting us know of the business arena to which you are applying the information gleaned from the Web site. We appreciate your comments.