1989. Polygalaeturonase aetivity and variation in ripening of papaya fruit with tissue depth and heat treatment -Physiol. Plant. 77; 93-98.Effects of tissue position (viz. outer vs inner mesocarp) and heat treatment (48°C, 20 min) on variations in polygalacturonase (EC 3.2.1.1.5 and EC 3.2.1.67) activity and ripening of fruits of Catica papaya L. ev. Backctoss Solo were investigated. Polygalaeturonase aetivity increased during ripening concotnitantly with an ineteasc in tissue softness and soluble polyuronide level. Throughout ripening, inner mesocarp tissue was softer and eontained higher polygalaeturonase activity than outer mesocarp tissue. Tittatable acidity as well as /i-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) activity also increased during ripening; however, unlike polygalacturonase, their level or activity was lower in inner than in outer mesoeatp. Ascorbic acid could paitially account for the inerease in titiatable acidity during ripening but contributed very little to the differences in titratable aeid levels between outer and inner mesoearp. Heat treatment had no effeet on either fruit softness or tittatable aeidity, but it markedly redueed the increase in ascorbic acid and polygalacturonase activity during ripening. Ripening, as reflected by ehanges in tissue sottness and polygalacturonase activity, progressed outwatdly frotn the interior towatds the exterior of the fruit. The effect of heat treatment in supptessing polygalacturonase activity was relatively greater in inner than in outer mesocarp, suggesting that sensitivity of the enzyme to heat treatment may vary with stage of ripeness of the tissue.
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