Abstract
Tomato fruit undergo an orderly series of physiological and morphological changes as they progress from mature-green (MG) to red-ripe. Fruit are commercially harvested at the MG stage, a stage which often encompasses fruit of varying degrees of maturity. The ability to predict the time required for MG fruit to ripen would reduce variability in experiments and could be commercially used to pack fruit that would ripen uniformly. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging can nondestructively measure internal changes associated with plant growth and developmental. In this study, NMR images were taken of freshly harvested tomato fruit (Lycopersicum esculentum cv. Castlemart) at different stages of maturity and ripeness. Measurements were also made of the stage of ripeness, rate of respiration and ethylene production, lycopene and chlorophyll content, density of the pericarp wall, and condition of locular tissue. NMR images showed substantial charges in the pericarp wall and locular tissue during maturation and ripening of tomato fruit. However, it was difficult to objectively evaluate these visual changes with other ripening parameters. For example, increased lightness and graininess of the pericarp wall image was associated with a decrease in wall density; while lightening of the locular image was associated with tissue liquefacation. Use of NMR imaging in studies of tomato fruit ripening will be discussed.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
NMR images changed substantially in pericarp wall and locular tissue during ripening.
- Taxon
- tomato fruit
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Organ / stage
- pericarp wall and locular tissuee0
- Outcome
- substantial chargese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“NMR images showed substantial charges in the pericarp wall and locular tissue during maturation and ripening of tomato fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
Visual NMR changes were difficult to evaluate objectively against other ripening parameters.
- Taxon
- tomato fruitSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- difficult to objectively evaluate these visual changese0
- Comparator
- other ripening parameterse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“it was difficult to objectively evaluate these visual changes with other ripening parameters”
t0“RIPENING TOMATO FRUIT”
Claim · model-written summary
Greater pericarp image lightness and graininess was associated with lower wall density.
- Taxon
- tomato fruitSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- pericarp walle0
- Outcome
- wall densitye0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Comparator
- increased lightness and graininesse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increased lightness and graininess of the pericarp wall image was associated with a decrease in wall density”
t0“RIPENING TOMATO FRUIT”
Claim · model-written summary
Lightening of the locular image was associated with tissue liquefaction.
- Taxon
- tomato fruitSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Organ / stage
- loculare0
- Outcome
- tissue liquefacatione0
- Comparator
- lightening of the locular imagee0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“lightening of the locular image was associated with tissue liquefacation”
t0“RIPENING TOMATO FRUIT”