Discover how placing fruit in a paper bag accelerates ripening—and learn all about ethylene gas and why this simple method is ...

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Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion ...

I have been studying how the plant hormone ethylene regulates growth and stress responses in plants. In a study published in July 2023, my lab made an unexpected and exciting observation.

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This was down to the up-regulation of an ethylene pathway that increases the plant’s response to the hormone. Overall the results demonstrate that the interaction between ethylene and PXY signalling ...

I have been studying how the plant hormone ethylene regulates growth and stress responses in plants. In a study published in July 2023, my lab made an unexpected and exciting observation.

Fruit ripening determines shelf life and consumer appeal, yet the molecular switches that control this process remain partially understood. This ...

Plant hormones mainly include ethylene, auxin, abscisic acid, gibberellins, cytokinins, jasmonates, brassinosteroids and salicylates, etc. In addition, some secondary metabolites, such as nitric oxide ...

Meanwhile at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research investigators had been observing the effect on plants of certain gases such as ethylene, acetylene, carbon monoxide.

“For about 40 years, we have known that the gaseous plant hormone ethylene, which is produced when plants are under stress, such as being flooded, inhibits the symbiosis between plants and fungi,” ...