Preliminary report on colour quality measured as chlorophyllase activity in strawberries at different stages of maturity

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 485, Issue , 1999, Pages 181-185

  Ihi, M ^a   San MartIn, A ^a   Bifani, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Chiorophyllase; Chlorophyll; Fragaria x ananassa

Indexed keywords

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 0006140663     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Amir-Shapira, D., Goldschmidt, E., Altman, A., 1987. Chlorophyll catabolism in senescing plant tissues: In vivo breakdown intermediates suggest different degradative pathways for citrus fruit and parsley leaves. Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci. 84: 1901-1905.
2. Chen, G.W. and Breen, P.J., 1991. Activity of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) and concentrations of anthocyanins and phenolics in developing strawberry Fruit. J. Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. 116: 865-869.
3. Francis, F.J., 1995. Quality as influenced by color. Food Quality and Preference 6: 149-155.
4. Heifrich, M., Schoch, S., Lempert, U., Cmiel, E. and RUdiger, W., 1994. Chlorophyll synthase cannot synthetize chlorophyll a. Eur. J. Biochem. 219: 267-275.
5. Ihi, M., Shene, C., Scheuermann, E. and Bifani, V., 1994. Correlation for pigment content through colour determination using tristimulus values in a green leafy vegetable, Swiss chard. J. Sci. Food. Agric. 66: 527-531.
6. nil, M., Etcheberrigaray, C. and Bifani, V., 1994. Chlorophyllase behaviour on Granny Smith apples. Acta Hortic. 368: 59-68.
7. hi, M., Monsalves, M. and Bifani, V., 1998. Chiorophyllase inactivation as a measure of blanching efficacy and colour retention of artichokes (Cynara scolymus L.). Food Sci. Technol. 31: 50-56.
8. Infante, R. and Metayer, M., 1996. Altemativas de plantación en frutillas. Frontera AgrIcola4: 12-15.
9. Little, A.C., 1975. Off on a tangent. J. Food Sci. 40: 410-411.
10. Mokkila, M., Randell, K, Hagg, M., Häkkinen, U. and Ahvenainen, R., 1996. Improvement of the postharvest quality of strawberries. Book of abstracts of the 4th EFFoST Conference on Minimal Processing of Foods. Köln, November 6-9
11. Pilando, L.S., Wrolstad, R.E. and Heatherbell, D.A., 1985. Influence of fruit composition, maturity and mold contamination on the color and appearance of strawberry wine. J. Food Sci. : 1121-1 125.
12. Porra, R.J., Thompson, W.A. and Kriedemann, P.E., 1989. Determination of accurate extinction coefficients and simultaneous equations for assaying chiorophylls a and b extracted with four different solvents: verification of the concentration of chlorophyll standards by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 975: 384-394.
13. Porra, R.J., 1991. Recent advances and re-assessments in chlorophyll extraction and assay procedures for terrestrial, aquatic and marine organisms, including recalcitrant algae. In: Scheer, H. (ed.) Chloropyll. CRS Press, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 3 1-57.
14. Rudiger, W. and Schoch, S., 1988. Chlorophylls. In: Goodwin, T.W. (ed.), Plant Pigments. Academic Press Ltd., London, pp. 1-59.
15. Schoch, S. and Brown, J., 1987. The Action of Chlorophyllase on Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes. J. Plant Physiol. 126: 483-494.
16. Shimokawa, K., Hashizume, A. and Shioi, Y., 1990a. Pyropheophorbide a, a catabolite of ethylene-induced chlorophyll a degradation. Phytochem. 297: 2105-2106.
17. Shimokawa, K., Tanabe, K. and Shioi, Y., 1990b. Identification of catabolites of ethylene-induced chlorophyll a degradation. Bulletin of the Faculty of Agriculture, Miyasaki University 37: 187-194.
18. Trebish, T., Goldschmidt, E.E. and Riov, 1., 1993. Ethylene induced de novo synthesis of chiorophyllase, a chlorophyll degrading enzyme, in Citrus fruit peel. Proc. Nat!. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 9441-9445.