Tissue 3
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Experimental Botany
- Vol. 31 (4) , 975-982
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/31.4.975
Abstract
Carbon dioxide and ethylene evolution began to increase rapidly after 10 and 21 h respectively when banana fruit were induced to ripen by treatment with propylene. At 36 h the soluble solids content of pulp tissue and the proportion of linolenic acid esterified to phospholipids extracted from pulp tissue increased. From 44 h onwards there was a progressive increase in pulp tissue permeability, as measured by leakage of electrolytes. The causes of the increased electrolyte leakage are discussed, with reference to the change in the proportion of linolenic acid and the increase in pulp soluble solids.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: