Relationships between changes in membrane permeability and the respiration climacteric in pericarp tissue of tomatoes

✍ Scribed by G. H. Swardt; G. G. Rousseau

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 207 KB
• Volume: 112
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-0935
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00386034

✦ Synopsis

Changes in the percent apparent free space (%AFS) in pericarp tissue of tomatoes at successive ripening stages were determined, using the climacteric sequence as a standard. A considerable increase in %AFS occurred in the preclimacteric stage. This initial rise was followed by a decline until shortly after the onset of the climacteric rise, apparently due to a temporary stabilization effect, followed by a final increase in permeability.