Claim · model-written summary
Immersing fruit-stem ends or detached hands in 2,4-D accelerated ripening.
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Verbatim
e0“Accelerated rates of ripening also occurred when either the cut end of the fruit stem was immersed in a solution of 1000 p.p.m. of 2,4-D or the detached hands of bananas were entirely or partly immersed in the treatment solution for a few seconds”
Title
S. R. Freiberg Botanical Gazette 1955. doi:10.1086/335896
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Bananas treated with 2,4-D, 2,4,5-T or CPA ripened faster than controls in an improvised ripening room.
- Observation Pulp ripening was accelerated more than skin ripening under growth regulator treatment.
- Intervention effect In a controlled standard room, 2,4-D-treated banana stems ripened at the same rate as controls.
- Intervention effect In the improvised room, 2,4-D-treated bananas ripened more evenly and had better coloring than controls.
- Intervention effect Injected banana fingers turned yellow while neighboring fingers remained green.
- Intervention effect 2,4-D significantly reduced longitudinal peel splitting in both ripening rooms.
- Intervention effect 2,4-D significantly reduced banana weight loss relative to controls in the improvised room.
- Intervention effect By day four, 2,4-D-treated bananas had higher reducing-sugar content than controls.
- Intervention effect By day four, 2,4-D-treated bananas had higher diastatic activity than controls.