Ultrastructural Changes Associated With Chilling of Tomato Fruit
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Societies in Phytopathology®
- Vol. 66 (5) , 617-624
- https://doi.org/10.1094/phyto-66-617
Abstract
Ultrastructural modifications of tomato fruit organelles were correlated with low-temperature injury. Chilling of fruit for 10 days at 2.degree. C interfered with conversion of chloroplasts to chromoplasts. After 15 days, mitochondria and plastids swelled and degenerated, and after 21 days organelles were barely discernible. Fruit stored at 7.degree. C underwent similar changes, but those stored at 13.degree. and 18.degree. C ripened without breakdown. Fruit warmed after low temperature storage of up to 15 days usually recovered, as evidenced by reversible ultrastructural changes in mitochondria and plastids.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- An ultrastructural study of the mature chromoplasts of the tangerine tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum var. ‘Golden Jubilee’)Journal of Ultrastructure Research, 1967