Carbon dioxide effects on fruits

✍ Scribed by Roy E. Young; Jacob B. Biale

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 743 KB
• Volume: 81
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-0935
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00391160

✦ Synopsis

1. The first products of C1402 fixation by lemon fruit in the dark were found to be malic, citric and aspartic acids. It is presumed that exalacetic is actually the first product to be labeled but that it is converted rapidly to the three other acids.

2. Malonic acid was identified as one of the products of exposure to C1402. 3. Aconitie, fumarie and cr acids could not be detected in the extracts of lemon peel, thus raising the possibility of the existence of at least two pools for the products of C02 fixation.

3. The suggestion was advanced that accumulation of citric acid in the vacuole leads to a deficiency of oxalacetic acid and thus limits overall oxidation. Carbon dioxide stimulates respiration by increasing the supply of oxalaeetic acid.