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1Department of Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis, California.
Abstract:
The relationship of respiration and growth of seed, pericarp tissue and whole fruit of snap beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was studied. The whole fruit exhibited an apparent climacteric type of respiration pattern. This pattern resulted from an increase in CO(2) production by the enlarging seed followed by a rapid decrease in CO(2) evolution by the pericarp tissue, and the pattern was not associated with any concomitant increase in ethylene production. Therefore, the apparent climacteric respiration pattern of a developing bean fruit is not comparable to the phenomenon that occurs in other ripening fruits.
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