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Plant Physiology 60:214-217 (1977)
© 1977 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Influence of Plant Hormones on Ethylene Production in Apple, Tomato, and Avocado Slices during Maturation and Senescence

Morris Lieberman1, James E. Baker and Marcia Sloger

a United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Postharvest Plant Physiology Laboratory, Agricultural Marketing Research Institute, Beltsville, Maryland 20705

Ethylene production by tissue slices from preclimacteric, climacteric, and postclimacteric apples was significantly reduced by isopentenyl adenosine (IPA), and by mixtures of IPA and indoleacetic acid, and of IPA, indoleacetic acid, and gibberellic acid after 4 hours of incubation. Ethylene production by apple (Pyrus malus L.) slices in abscisic acid was increased in preclimacteric tissues, decreased in climacteric peak tissues, and little affected in postclimacteric tissues. Indoleacetic acid suppressed ethylene production in tissues from preclimacteric apples but stimulated ethylene production in late climacteric rise, climacteric, and postclimacteric tissue slices. Gibberellic acid had less influence in suppressing ethylene production in preclimacteric peak tissue, and little influenced the production in late climacteric rise, climacteric peak, and postclimacteric tissues. IPA also suppressed ethylene production in pre- and postclimacteric tissue of tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) and avocados (Persea gratissima). If ethylene production in tissue slices of ripening fruits is an index of aging, then IPA would appear to retard aging in ripening fruit, just as other cytokinins appear to retard aging in senescent leaf tissue.

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