Abstract
Tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) plants of the non‐ripening mutant nor (3rd backcross to the normal cultivar Rutgers) were grown under water stress induced in two different ways: a) reduction of water supply and b) increase in transpiration rate by adding kinetin to the nutrient solution. Both drought treatments induced fruits of the non‐ripening mutant nor to ripen, that is, the parameters characteristic of ripening – red pigment, taste, pectolytic activity, softening, and the evolution rates of CO 2 and ethylene – all increased, although not to the normal level. Such an increase does not normally take place in the nor mutant under control conditions. It is suggested that fruits of the nor mutant can be induced to ripen by any kind of water stress. The induction mechanism is still to be explored.
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Claim · model-written summary
Reduced water supply induced ripening of nor tomato fruits, increasing ripening traits below normal levels.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Material
- nore0
- Treatment
- drought treatmentse0
- Outcome
- parameters characteristic of ripening – red pigment, taste, pectolytic activity, softening, and the evolution rates of CO 2 and ethylenee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- normal levele0
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Verbatim
e0“Both drought treatments induced fruits of the non‐ripening mutant nor to ripen, that is, the parameters characteristic of ripening – red pigment, taste, pectolytic activity, softening, and the evolution rates of CO 2 and ethylene – all increased, although not to the normal level”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest any kind of water stress can induce nor tomato fruit ripening.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Material
- nore0
- Outcome
- induced to ripen by any kind of water stresse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“It is suggested that fruits of the nor mutant can be induced to ripen by any kind of water stress”
t0“Tomato”
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