Advances in ROS promoting fruit development and ripening
WANG Zhenguang, YU Yihe, GUO Dalong*
College of Forestry, Henan University of Science and Technology, Henan Engineering Technology Research Center of Quality Regulation and Controlling of Horticultural Plants, Luoyang 471023, China
Abstract
ROS is produced along the fruit development, which often damages proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and DNA, causing severe cell membrane damage and inducing programmed cell death. But moderate oxidative stress is conducive to fruit ripening. The physiological mechanism of ROS affecting the fruit ripening, the interaction mechanism of ROS and hormones regulating fruit ripening, the molecular mechanism of ROS directly regulating the fruit ripening, the cooperative interaction of ROS and calcium ions regulating postharvest fruit ripening were summarized, to provide a theoretical basis and reference for employing ROS to regulate fruit ripening directly or indirectly.
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Excessive generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been identified as a major cause of quality deterioration of harvested fruit and vegetables. The effect of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), the most stable of the reactive oxygen, on the quality of harvested longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) fruit during storage were investigated. The results showed that in comparison to the control longans, the H2O2-treated longans had lower contents of pericarp pigments including chlorophyll, carotenoid and flavonoid, lower contents of pulp nutrients such as total sugar, sucrose and vitamin C, higher pericarp browning index and aril breakdown index, and lower percentage of commercially acceptable fruits. From the above findings, it could be concluded that H2O2 may play a key role in causing the quality deterioration of harvested longan fruit by accelerating the deterioration of pericarp color, stimulating the degradation of pulp nutrients, thereby reducing the marketable value of harvested longan fruit.
Institute of Postharvest Technology of Agricultural Products, College of Food Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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The changes of active oxygen species in ‘Brumal Jujube’flesh treated with 100 mg·L - 1 ABA or 100μg·L - 1 GA 3 during cold storage 〔(0 ±2) ℃, 60 days〕, including the p roduction rate of superoxide anion, contents of malondialdehyde (MDA ) or H 2 O 2 and activities of catalase (CAT) , peroxidase ( POD ) , polyphenoloxidase ( PPO ) and ascorbic acid oxidase (AAO ) , were investigated. The results showed that ABA increased the p roduction rate of superoxide anion, promoted the accumulations of MDA and H 2 O 2 in ‘Brumal Jujube’during storage, the activity peaks of CAT, PPO and POD were advanced, and AAO activity kep t increasing, the content of total phenols decreased sharp ly, all of the parameters above were higher than those in control. They suggested that ABA treatment accelerated the senescence of‘Brumal Jujube’fruit. The effects of ABA on ‘Brumal Jujube’fruit were opposite to GA 3 .
( 1 Department of Food Science, Beijing Agricultural College, Beijing 102206, China; 2 College of Food Science and Nutrional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China)
韩斯, 孟宪军, 汪艳群, 等. 氯化钙处理对速冻蓝莓冻藏期品质的影响[J]. 食品科学, 2014, 35(22): 310-314. HANS, MENG XJ, WANG YQ, et al. Effect of calcium chloride treatment on quality of quick frozen blueberry during frozen storage[J]. Food Science, 2014, 35(22): 310-314. (in Chinese with English abstract)
Blueberry fruits were treated with varying concentrations of calcium chloride before storage at -18 ℃ for 6 months, and changes in blueberry quality were investigated during the storage period. The results indicated that calcium chloride resulted in a decrease in weight, firmness, total soluble solid (TSS), titratable acid, vitamin C, polyphenol and anthocyanin in blueberry fruits during the frozen storage. Calcium chloride treatment also retarded the decrease of fruit firmness, TSS, polyphenol, anthocyanin and vitamin C. In addition, the soluble polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity and soluble peroxidase (POD) activities were decreased. Calcium chloride treatment significantly inhibited PPO activity in the later period of frozen storage, but had no significant effect on POD activity. By comprehensive analysis, 1.5% calcium chloride treatment on quick frozen blueberry fruits presents the optimum protection effects during frozen storage.
College of Food Science, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China