Claim · model-written summary
Substantial calcium infiltration completely inhibited whole tomato fruit ripening.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Organ / stage
- whole tomato fruite0
- Treatment
- infiltrated with substantial amounts of calciume0
- Outcome
- ripening of whole tomato fruite0
- Direction
- complete inhibitione0
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Verbatim
e0“complete inhibition of ripening of whole tomato fruit obtained when infiltrated with substantial amounts of calcium”
Title
EFFECT OF CALCIUM ON ACTIVITY OF MITOCHONDRIA AND PECTIC ENZYMES ISOLATED FROM TOMATO FRUITS
R. B. H. WILLS; C. J. RIGNEY Journal of Food Biochemistry 1980. doi:10.1111/j.1745-4514.1980.tb00639.x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect High calcium concentrations inhibited activity of mitochondria isolated from tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect High calcium concentrations inhibited activity of pectinesterase and polygalacturonase isolated from tomato fruit.
- Intervention effect Lower calcium concentrations stimulated tomato fruit mitochondrial activity.
- Intervention effect Lower calcium concentrations stimulated tomato fruit pectinesterase activity.
- Intervention effect Calcium concentrations greater than 10−7 M inhibited polygalacturonase activity at pH 4.5.