Abstract
Fruit ripening in normal red-, orange- and yellow-fruited cultivars of tomato was accelerated by treatment with Ethrel and such fruits had lower tomatine levels than untreated controls. Fruits in which ripening was retarded by incubating under reduced pressure had higher alkaloid levels than controls. In each case, fruit ripeness (as measured by pigmentation) showed a strong negative correlation with fruit tomatine. Ethrel treatment of fruits of the non-ripening mutants nor and rin caused only a small development of carotenoid pigment but markedly enhanced tomatine disappearance. Pigmentation and tomatine were again negatively correlated although the quantitative relationship differed. Under normal circumstances, tomatine disappearance from tomato fruits-is apparently governed by the physiological (cf. chronological) age of the fruit rather than by its growth or ripening characteristics alone.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel accelerated ripening in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Material
- normal red-, orange- and yellow-fruited cultivarse0
- Organ / stage
- Fruite0
- Treatment
- Ethrele0
- Outcome
- Fruit ripeninge0
- Direction
- acceleratede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit ripening in normal red-, orange- and yellow-fruited cultivars of tomato was accelerated by treatment with Ethrel”
Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel-treated tomato fruit had lower tomatine than untreated controls.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Ethrele0
- Outcome
- tomatine levelse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- untreated controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit ripening in normal red-, orange- and yellow-fruited cultivars of tomato was accelerated by treatment with Ethrel and such fruits had lower tomatine levels than untreated controls”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced pressure retarded tomato fruit ripening.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- incubating under reduced pressuree0
- Outcome
- ripeninge0
- Direction
- retardede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits in which ripening was retarded by incubating under reduced pressure”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Reduced-pressure fruit had higher alkaloid levels than controls.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- incubating under reduced pressuree0
- Outcome
- alkaloid levelse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- controlse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits in which ripening was retarded by incubating under reduced pressure had higher alkaloid levels than controls”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit ripeness and tomatine were negatively correlated.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- fruite0
- Outcome
- fruit tomatinee0
- Direction
- negative correlatione0
- Comparator
- fruit ripenesse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit ripeness (as measured by pigmentation) showed a strong negative correlation with fruit tomatine”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel caused a small increase in carotenoid pigment in nor mutant fruit.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Material
- nore0
- Treatment
- Ethrel treatmente0
- Outcome
- carotenoid pigmente0
- Direction
- developmente0
- Qualifier
- only a smalle0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ethrel treatment of fruits of the non-ripening mutants nor and rin caused only a small development of carotenoid pigment”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel caused a small increase in carotenoid pigment in rin mutant fruit.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Material
- rine0
- Treatment
- Ethrel treatmente0
- Outcome
- carotenoid pigmente0
- Direction
- developmente0
- Qualifier
- only a smalle0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ethrel treatment of fruits of the non-ripening mutants nor and rin caused only a small development of carotenoid pigment”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel enhanced tomatine disappearance in nor mutant fruit.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Material
- nore0
- Treatment
- Ethrel treatmente0
- Outcome
- tomatine disappearancee0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ethrel treatment of fruits of the non-ripening mutants nor and rin caused only a small development of carotenoid pigment but markedly enhanced tomatine disappearance”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel enhanced tomatine disappearance in rin mutant fruit.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Material
- rine0
- Treatment
- Ethrel treatmente0
- Outcome
- tomatine disappearancee0
- Direction
- enhancede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ethrel treatment of fruits of the non-ripening mutants nor and rin caused only a small development of carotenoid pigment but markedly enhanced tomatine disappearance”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Pigmentation and tomatine were negatively correlated in mutant fruit, with a different quantitative relationship.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- tomatinee0
- Direction
- negatively correlatede0
- Qualifier
- quantitative relationship differede0
- Comparator
- Pigmentatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Pigmentation and tomatine were again negatively correlated although the quantitative relationship differed”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors infer that physiological fruit age governs tomatine disappearance.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Organ / stage
- fruite0
- Outcome
- tomatine disappearancee0
- Qualifier
- physiological (cf. chronological) age of the fruite0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“tomatine disappearance from tomato fruits-is apparently governed by the physiological (cf. chronological) age of the fruit rather than by its growth or ripening characteristics alone”
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