Makky, Muhammad (2015) Tomato Fruits (Solanaceae Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) Feedback Mechanism in The Presence of Exogenous Ethylene under Prolonged Chilling Temperature Storage. Journal of Nutrition & Pharmacy Research, 1 (1). pp. 1-9.
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Abstract
Green mature and red ripe tomato ‘Roma VF’ fruits were stored in air-tight glass jars (1000ml), at 5o C for three weeks in dark. Grouped by similarity in color, three fruits were put into each jar. Half numbers of the jars were injected with 2ml of 1.25 ppm Ethylene gas, while the other half was used as control. Four random sets of samples, with three replications, were measured at 7 day intervals within three weeks. Upon measurement, jars were put into 20o C room temperature for 30 minutes, and then the upper atmosphere inside the jar was analyzed using gas chromatogram. The fruits physiology inside each jar were measured (skin and pericarp color and hardness, storing and peeling weight loss, dimension and transversal cross section, soluble solid content, and tritatable acidity). The result showed that red ripe tomato fruits ‘Roma VF’ stored in 5oC with exogenous ethylene have superior appearance, higher respiration production and higher senescent rate as compared to the control. The green mature fruits had the opposite effect when treated with ethylene, possibly due to an auto-induction mechanism in the synthesis process of the enzymes that are involved in ethylene biosynthesis controlled by the phyto-hormone ethylene. Thus, green mature fruits, when exposed to C2H4, revealed a negative feedback mechanism. Keywords: Tomato, C2H4, Cold Storage, Feedback Mechanism, Auto-Induction Mechanism.
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| Additional Information: | The first author would like to thank the Panacea project for providing the mobility scholarship under Erasmus Mundus Action 2 program, the Directorate General of Higher Education of Indonesia for providing the fellowship in Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and to the LPDP Indonesia, for providing funding for his work |
| Subjects: | S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Unit atau Lembaga: | Fakultas Teknologi Pertanian > Teknik Pertanian |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Eng. Muhammad Makky, STP., MSi |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2016 08:09 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2016 08:09 |
| URI: | http://repository.unand.ac.id/id/eprint/23205 |
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