Abscisic acid (ABA) is a growth regulatory substance that plays an important role in various processes the cell, such as plant adaptation to environmental threats, seed development, dormancy, budding, and fruit ripening. Another of abscisic increased antioxidant capacity, total phenol content, carotenoid, anthocyanin content. The content bioactive compounds antioxidants parameter quality can de...

A cDNA clone (Ban17), encoding a protein homologous to pectate lyase, has been isolated from a cDNA library from climacteric banana fruit by means of differential screening. Northern analysis showed that Ban17 mRNA is first detected in early climacteric fruit, reaches a steady-state maximum at the climacteric peak, and declines thereafter in overripe fruit. Accumulation of the Ban17 transcript ...

Peach has fleshy climacteric fruits. Their ripening is controlled by both endogenous and exogenous signals to link the genetic determinants with the environmental conditions. Genomic tools, such as microarray RNA profiling, offer new prospects to study in a holistic way complex biological problems such as fruit ripening. We have adopted a microarray approach to monitor transcriptome changes in ...

Integrative comparative analyses of transcript and metabolite levels from climacteric and nonclimacteric fruits can be employed to unravel the similarities and differences of the underlying regulatory processes. To this end, we conducted combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and heterologous microarray hybridization assays in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum; climacteric) and pepper (Capsic...

The rate of uptake of inorganic phosphate by tissue discs from both preclimacteric and climacteric peak avocados is linear for at least 60 minutes. The loss of (32)P upon excessive washing was much greater from peak than from preclimacteric tissue. Short incubation periods and, most important, rapid washing procedures are essential for meaningful comparisons.Phosphate esterification proceeded a...

During work carried out over a number of years, it has been found repeatedly that, in Bramley's Seedling apples which have been gathered before the onset of the respiration climacteric and placed in storage, there is a slow rise in net protein content during the period when the respiration climacteric occurs (see, e.g., Hulme, 1936b). It is not certain, however, that there is a direct connexion...