
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jerie, PH 
T1  - The Role of Ethylene in Abscission of Cling Peach Fruit
JF  - Functional Plant Biology
JO  - Functional Plant Biol.
Y1  - 1976
VL  - 3
IS  - 6
SP  - 747
EP  - 754
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PP9760747 
N2  - Ethylene production was measured in fruit of a number of cling peach cultivars within 1 h of picking. During the period when ethylene production on the tree was rising exponentially, fruit from cultivars with low preharvest drop produced ethylene at much lower rates than fruit from high-drop cultivars. Also, the ethylene peak tended to occur earlier relative to flesh colouring in high-drop cultivars. The level of endogenous ethylene controlled the rate of abscission, which was retarded by holding the fruit in an atmosphere of 15% CO*2. Abscission was accelerated by injection of (2-chloroethyl)- phosphonic acid, but the cultivars Golden Queen and Phillips, and an unnamed cultivar, differed from each other in their sensitivity. 
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