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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:42:58 -0500
>Jill,
>
>I know they gas fruit and vegetables to cause "ripening" or turning them
red. I don't
>know what it is.
>> Thank you for your answer - it is very helpful!
>> What is it that is put on the strawberries to make them turn red,
even
>> thought they are green, do you know?
Ehtylene is used to ripen certain fruits, such as bananas and tomatoes. It
is naturally produced by apples and many other fruits. That's why consumers
are warned not to package apples and bananas together. The bananas will
respond to the ethylene from the apples by over-ripening rapidly.
I don't believe the strawberry industry uses ethylene because it's
unnecessary. The berries aren't picked until they begin ripening. The
artificial dose of ethylene isn't needed to finish ripening them.
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
-
Methyl Bromide till 2015/,
Hugh Lovel, 06/15/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Alex McGregor, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Alex McGregor, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Bill Shoemaker, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Hugh Lovel, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 06/15/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Ava Devenport, 06/16/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, Hugh Lovel, 06/16/2000
- Re: Methyl Bromide till 2015/, robert schuler, 06/17/2000
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