Claim · model-written summary
Ethylene appeared to enhance membrane permeability.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- ethylenee0
- Outcome
- membrane permeabilitye0
- Direction
- enhancee0
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Verbatim
e0“ethylene appeared to enhance membrane permeability.”
t0“Watermelon”
Title
Mohamed E. Elkashif; Donald J. Huber Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 1988. doi:10.21273/jashs.113.3.378
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Ethylene significantly increased electrolyte leakage.
- Observation Leakage was highest in distilled water.
- Intervention effect Isotonic media reduced leakage and made the ethylene effect more apparent.
- Intervention effect Ethylene increased polygalacturonase activity more than tenfold over six days.
- Observation Air-stored fruit showed little PG activity change over up to 120 days.
- Intervention effect Ethylene-exposed fruit cell walls showed acute ultrastructural damage.
- Mechanism Ethylene-associated PG-mediated breakdown apparently contributed to firmness decline and watersoaking.