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Ethylene during flowering and fruit ripening


Laser photoacoustic spectroscopy was used to continuously quantify the ethylene that is produced by strawberry flowers and fruit while they developed in planta.

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Ethylene was first detected as flower buds opened and exhibited diurnal oscillations with peak production prior to petal abscission. After that C2H4 production fells to a low and relatively continuous level until fruit had entered the latter stages of being non-expanded and dark-green. Once fruit initiated red coloration, C2H4 release becomes elevated in a linear fashion (without diurnal fluctuations).

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