The Climacteric Rise in Fruit Respiration as Controlled by Phosphorylative Coupling.

摘要: The ripening of fruit is accompanied by a group physiological and chemical changes which are characteristic moderately uniform as between different species plants. Typical components the process pectic transformations lead to softening, in color, often with disappearance pigment such chlorophyll appearance new secondary pigments, compounds responsible for taste or odor, transformation reserve materials polysaccharides simpler sugars, finally, magnitude respiratory gas exchange. respiration many fruits after removal from plant follows general course shown avocado figure 1 (1). Respiration drops slowly low point known preclimacteric minimum. At this still unripe. With initiation ripening, rate rises minimum climacteric maximum. Edible maturity coincides cases maximum respiration, few hours days. Subsequent steadily passes into senescence. We have tried get some insight study factors underlie changing during cycle. sudden rise should become understandable if one could discover factor limit at therefore studied rate, particular, might alteration increase bring about increases fruit.