Thoreau's last manuscript could help understand the future climate of New England.
Tag - ripening
Fi Gennu
Can a tomato hear, and what would it listen to?
Over Christmas, a couple of papers came out that suggest plants can respond to airborne sound waves. The findings challenge many ideas about how plants respond to sound.
Alun Salt
Hydroxyl radicals attack pectins in ripening fruit
Pectin degradation, causing the softening of ripening fruit, has been proposed to be partly enzymic and partly due to non-enzymic scission by hydroxyl radicals (•OH). Airianah et al. applied a recently developed...
botanyone
Sodium nitroprusside and ozone in kiwifruit ripening
Despite their importance in many aspects of plant physiology, information about the function of oxidative and, particularly, of nitrosative signalling in fruit biology is limited. Tanou et al. study the ripening of...
Ripening of pepper fruit and reactive nitrogen species
Pepper (Capsicum annuum, Solanaceae) fruits are consumed worldwide and are of great economic importance. In most species ripening is characterized by important visual and metabolic changes, the latter including emission...
Antioxidant metabolism in pepper fruit (Research in Context)
Pepper (Capsicum annuum) contains high levels of antioxidants, such as vitamins A and C and flavonoids. However, information on the role of these beneficial compounds in the physiology of pepper fruit remains scarce...
