Abstract
Abstract A vacuum infiltration technique that allowed precise control of both infiltration rate and amount of solution administered to whole tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum ) fruit was developed. Controlled volumes of 5 m m solutions of CuSO 4 , Cu(NO 3 ) 2 , HgCl 2 , CaSO 4 , KNO 3 , (NH 4 ) 2 C 2 O 4 , Na 2 HPO 4 , citrate and 1 m m EDTA or EGTA were infiltrated into intact, mature-green tomato fruit and evaluated with regard to their effect on the pattern of tomato ripening. Copper significantly accelerated lycopene accumulation and influenced both the timing and magnitude of climacteric ethylene production. Infiltration with HgCl 2 elicited similar effects as copper, but severe phytotoxicity was observed. In contrast, CaSO 4 , KNO 3 , and chelators had no significant effect on the pattern of ripening. Copper initiated wound ethylene production in the ripening mutant rin that reached up to 50% of the wound levels observed in normal fruit, but rin was not induced to ripen.
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Claims 10
Claim · model-written summary
A vacuum infiltration technique controlled infiltration rate and solution amount in whole tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Outcome
- precise control of both infiltration rate and amount of solutione0
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Verbatim
e0“allowed precise control of both infiltration rate and amount of solution administered to whole tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum ) fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
Copper significantly accelerated lycopene accumulation in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Coppere0
- Outcome
- lycopene accumulatione0
- Direction
- acceleratede0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Copper significantly accelerated lycopene accumulation”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
Copper changed the timing and magnitude of climacteric ethylene production in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Coppere0
- Outcome
- timing and magnitude of climacteric ethylene productione0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
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Verbatim
e0“Copper significantly accelerated lycopene accumulation and influenced both the timing and magnitude of climacteric ethylene production”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
HgCl 2 elicited ripening effects similar to copper.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Infiltration with HgCl 2e0
- Outcome
- similar effectse0
- Comparator
- coppere0
Not reportedDirection
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Verbatim
e0“Infiltration with HgCl 2 elicited similar effects as copper”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
HgCl 2 infiltration caused severe phytotoxicity.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Infiltration with HgCl 2e0
- Outcome
- severe phytotoxicitye0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
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Verbatim
e0“Infiltration with HgCl 2 elicited similar effects as copper, but severe phytotoxicity was observed”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
CaSO 4 had no significant effect on tomato ripening pattern.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- CaSO 4e0
- Outcome
- pattern of ripeninge0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“CaSO 4 , KNO 3 , and chelators had no significant effect on the pattern of ripening”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
KNO 3 had no significant effect on tomato ripening pattern.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- KNO 3e0
- Outcome
- pattern of ripeninge0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“CaSO 4 , KNO 3 , and chelators had no significant effect on the pattern of ripening”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
Chelators had no significant effect on tomato ripening pattern.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- chelatorse0
- Outcome
- pattern of ripeninge0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“CaSO 4 , KNO 3 , and chelators had no significant effect on the pattern of ripening”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
Copper induced wound ethylene in rin at up to half normal-fruit wound levels.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- rine0
- Treatment
- Coppere0
- Outcome
- wound ethylene productione0
- Direction
- initiatede0
- Value
- up to 50%e0
- Comparator
- normal fruite0
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Verbatim
e0“Copper initiated wound ethylene production in the ripening mutant rin that reached up to 50% of the wound levels observed in normal fruit”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
Copper did not induce rin tomato fruit to ripen.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- rine0
- Treatment
- Coppere1
- Outcome
- not induced to ripene0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
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Verbatim
e0“rin was not induced to ripen”
e1“Copper initiated wound ethylene production in the ripening mutant rin”
t0“Tomato Fruit”
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