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Development and Growth Regulation

Cell Turgor Changes Associated with Ripening in Tomato Pericarp Tissue

Department of Pomology, University of California, Davis, California 95616

The pressure microprobe was used to determine whether the turgor pressure in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., variety "Castelmart") pericarp cells changed during fruit ripening. The turgor pressure of cells located 200 to 500 micrometers below the fruit epidermis was uniform within the same tissue (typically ± 0.02 megapascals), and the highest turgors observed (<0.2 megapascals) were much less than expected, based on tissue osmotic potential (–0.6 to –0.7 megapascals). These low turgor values may indicate the presence of apoplastic solutes. In both intact fruit and cultured discs of pericarp tissue, a small increase in turgor preceded the onset of ripening, and a decrease in turgor occurred during ripening. Differences in the turgor of individual intact fruit occurred 2 to 4 days before parallel differences in their ripening behavior were apparent, indicating that changes in turgor may reflect physiological changes at the cell level that precede expression of ripening at the tissue level.

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