What is it about?
Tomato is a very nutritious indigenous fruit vegetable but it is also highly perishable. Ripe tomatoes are perishable, therefore they can be damaged easily during harvesting and shipping and this leads to loss of quality and exhibiting a short shelf life. The delay of ripening is of a great economic importance because of a large annual loss due to spoilage. . 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP), the synthetic gaseous compound is found recently to be a good antagonist ethylene compound, is being used to extend the shelf life of fresh produce by controlling ripening related changes such as dramatic changes in texture, colour, flavor, pH and aroma of the fruit flesh and over-ripening.
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Why is it important?
Currently, 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment process involves its continuous exposure in a controlled room environment for several hours, allowing the 1-MCP to bind to the ethylene receptors on the plant cell, resulting in inhibition of ethylene action and delayed ripening . The results of this research confirmed that the uses of 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) have commercial potential for growers and traders to delay the ripening of green tomatoes.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I will have a long standing collaborations. This article has also made other people aware of the other methods that they can adopt to delay the ripening of their crops in order to help maintain its quality and extend their shelf-life.
ELVIS AMOATENG MENSAH
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
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This page is a summary of: Effect of Postharvest Application of Different Concentrations of 1-Methylcylclopropene on Quality and Shelf-life of Two Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Cultivars, Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International, February 2018, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/jaeri/2018/38407.
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