Cell-wall polysaccharide modifications during postharvest ripening of papaya fruit (Carica papaya)

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-26

  Manrique, Guillermo D ^a,b   Lajolo, Franco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cell wall disassembly; Cellulose; Fruit softening; Hemicellulose; Pectin

Indexed keywords

CARICA; CARICA PAPAYA;

EID: 2642573576     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2004.01.007     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Ali Z.M., Ng S.-Y., Othman R., Goh L.-Y., Lazan H. Isolation, characterization and significance of papaya β-galactanases to cell wall modification and fruit softening during ripening. Physiol. Plant. 104:1998;105-115
2. Arriola, M.C., Calzada, J.F., Menchu, J.F., Rolz, C., García, R., 1980. In: Nagy, S., Shaw, P.E. (Eds.), Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Composition, Properties and Uses. Avi Publishing Inc., Connecticut, pp. 316-340.
3. Bartley I.M., Knee M. The chemistry of textural changes in fruit during storage. Food Chem. 9:1982;47-58
4. Ben-Arie R., Kislev N., Frenkel C. Ultrastructural changes in the cell walls of ripening apple and pear fruit. Plant Physiol. 64:1979;197-202
5. Brownleader M.D., Jackson P., Mobasheri A., Pantelides A.T., Sumar S., Trevan M., Dey P.M. Molecular aspects of cell wall modifications during fruit ripening. CRC Crit. Rev. Food Sci. Nutr. 39:1999;149-164
6. Carrington C.M.S., Greve C.L., Labavitch J.M. Cell wall metabolism in ripening fruit. Plant Physiol. 103:1993;429-434
7. Crookes P.R., Grierson D. Ultrastructure of tomato fruit ripening and the role of polygalacturonase isoenzymes in the cell wall degradation. Plant Physiol. 72:1983;1088-1093
8. D'innocenzo, M., 1996. Comportamento de enzimas da parede celular e textura da polpa relacionados ao tratamento de irradiação de mamões (Carica papaya L. cv. Solo) durante o amadurecimento. M.Sc. Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brasil.
9. Dawson D.M., Melton L.D., Watkins C.B. Cell-wall changes in nectarines (Prunus persica) - solubilization and depolymerization of pectic and neutral polymers during ripening and in mealy fruit. Plant Physiol. 100:1992;1203-1210
10. Dey, P.M., 1985. D-Galactose-containing oligosaccharides. In: Dey, P.M., Dixon, R.A. (Eds.), Biochemistry of Storage Carbohydrate in Green Plants. Academic Press, London, pp. 53-120.
11. Dische, Z., 1955. New color reactions for determination of sugars in polysaccharides. In: Glick, D. (Ed.), Methods in Biochemical Analysis. Interscience, New York, pp. 325-327.
12. Dubois M., Gilles K.A., Hamilton J.K., Rebers P.A., Smith F. Colorimetric method for determination of sugars and related substances. Anal. Chem. 28:1956;350-356
13. Filisetti-Cozzi T.M.C.C., Carpita N.C. Measurement of uronic acid without interference from neutral sugars. Anal. Biochem. 197:1991;157-162
14. Fischer M., Arrigoni E., Amadò R. Changes in the pectic substances of apple during development and postharvest ripening. Part 2: Analysis of the pectic fractions. Carbohyd. Polym. 25:1994;167-175
15. Fishman M.L., Gross K.C., Gillespie D.T., Sondey S.M. Macromolecular components of tomato fruit pectin. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 274:1989;179-191
16. Fry S.C. Oxidative scission of plant cell-wall polysaccharides by ascorbate-induced hydroxyl radicals. Biochem. J. 332:1998;507-515
17. Gómez, M.L.P.A., 1998. Metabolismo de carboidratos durante o amadurecimento do mamão (Carica papaya L. CV. Solo): influência da radiação gama. M.Sc. Thesis, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
18. Gross K.C., Sams C.E. Changes in cell wall neutral sugar composition during fruit ripening: a species survey. Phytochemistry. 23:1984;2457-2461
19. Jackman R.L., Stanley D.W. Perspectives in the textural evaluation of plant foods. Trends Food Sci. Technol. 6:1995;187-194
20. Jarvis M.C. Structure and properties of pectin gels in plant-cell walls. Plant Cell Environ. 7:1984;153-164
21. Kiss J. β-Eliminative degradation of carbohydrates containing uronic acid residues. Adv. Carboh. Chem. Biochem. 29:1974;229-298
22. Koh T.H., Melton L.D. Analysis of papaya cell-wall polysaccharides. Asian Food J. 9:1994;101-106
23. Koch J.L., Nevins D.J. Tomato fruit cell wall. Part I. Use of purified tomato polygalacturonase and pectinmethylesterase to identify developmental changes in pectins. Plant Physiol. 91:1989;816-822
24. Kravtchenko T.P., Arnould I., Voragen A.G.J., Pilnik W. Improvement of the selective depolymerization of pectin substances by chemical β-elimination in aqueous solution. Carbohyd. Polym. 19:1992;237-242
25. Lazan H., Selamat M.K., Ali Z.M. β-Galactosidase, polygalacturonase and pectinesterase in differential softening and cell wall modification during papaya fruit ripening. Physiol. Plant. 95:1995;106-112
26. Manrique G.D., Lajolo F.M. FT-IR spectroscopy as a tool for measuring degree of methyl esterification in pectins isolated from ripening papaya fruit. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 25:2002;101-109
27. Martín-Cabrejas M., Waldron K.W., Selvendran R.R. Cell wall changes in Spanish pear during ripening. J. Plant Physiol. 144:1994;541-548
28. Menezes J.B., Chitarra A.B., Chitarra M.I.F., Bicalho U.O. Modificações dos componentes de parede celular do melão tipo Galia durante a maturação. Ciênc. Tecnol. Aliment. 17:1997;301-308
29. Mitcham E.J., McDonald R.E. Cell-wall modification during ripening of Keitt and Tommy Atkins mango fruit. J. Am. Soc. Hort. 117:1992;919-924
30. Mort A.J., Moerschbacher B.M., Pierce M.L., Maness N.O. Problems encountered during the extraction, purification and chromatography of pectic fragments, and some solutions to them. Carbohydr. Res. 215:1991;219-227
31. Nunan K.J., Sims I.M., Bacic A., Robinson S.P., Fincher G.B. Changes in cell wall composition during ripening of grape berries. Plant Physiol. 118:1998;783-792
32. O'Donoghue E.M., Huber D.J., Timpa J.D., Erdos G.W., Brecht J.K. Influence of avocado (Persea americana) Cx-cellulase on the structural features of avocado cellulose. Planta. 194:1992;573-584
33. Paull, R.E., 1996. In: Seymour, G.B., Taylor, J.E., Tucker, G.A. (Eds.), Pineapple and Papaya. Biochemistry of Fruit Ripening. Chapman & Hall, London, pp. 306-323.
34. Paull R.E., Chen N.J. Postharvest variation in cell wall degrading enzymes of papaya (Carica papaya L.) during fruit ripening. Plant Physiol. 72:1983;382-385
35. Paull R.E., Gross K., Qiu Y. Changes in papaya cell walls during fruit ripening. Postharvest Biol. Technol. 16:1999;79-89
36. Perring M.A. Changes in dry matter concentration gradients in stored apples. J. Sci. Food Agric. 46:1989;439-449
37. Redgwell R.J., Fischer M., Kendall M., MacRae E.A. Galactose loss and fruit ripening: high-molecular-weight arabinogalactans in the pectic polysaccharides of fruit cell walls. Planta. 203:1997;174-181
38. Redgwell R.J., Melton L.D., Brasch D.J. Cell-wall polysaccharides of kiwifruit (Actinida deliciosa): effect of ripening on the structure features of cell-wall materials. Carbohydr. Res. 209:1991;191-202
39. Redgwell R.J., Melton L.D., Brasch D.J., Coddington J.M. Structures of the pectic polysaccharides from the cell walls of kiwifruit. Carbohydr. Res. 226:1992;287-302
40. Rees, D.G., 1997. Essential Statistics, Chapman & Hall, London.
41. Renard C.M.G.C., Voragen A.G.J., Thibault J.F. Studies on apple protopectin. Part 4. Apple xyloglucans and influence of pectin extraction treatments on their solubility. Carbohyd. Polym. 15:1991;387-403
42. Rodionova N.A., Bezborodov A.M. Localization of enzyme systems that degrade cell-wall polysaccharides in higher plants: pectinases (review). Appl. Biochem. Microbiol. 33:1997;415-432
43. Rose J.C.K., Hadfield K.A., Labavitch J.M., Bennett A.B. Temporal sequence of cell wall disassembly in rapidly ripening melon fruit. Plant Physiol. 117:1998;345-361
44. Schweikert C., Liszkay A., Schopfer P. Scission of polysaccharides by peroxidase-generated hydroxyl radicals. Phytochemistry. 53:2000;565-570
45. Seaman J.F., Moore W.E., Mitchell R.L., Millett M.A. Techniques for determination of pulp constituents by quantitative paper chromatography. TAPPI. 37:1954;336-339
46. Seymour G.B., Gross K.C. Cell wall disassembly and fruit softening. Postharvest News Inform. 7:1996;45N-52N
47. Smith, J.S., 1994. Evaluation of analytical data. In: Nielsen, S.S. (Ed.), Introduction to the Chemical Analysis of Foods. Chapman & Hall, New York, pp. 51-63.
48. Tucker, G.A., 1996. Introduction. In: Seymour, G.B., Taylor, J.E., Tucker, G.A. (Eds.), Biochemistry of Fruit Ripening. Chapman & Hall, London, pp. 1-51.
49. Wade N.L., Satyan S.H. Increase in low molecular size uronic acid in ripening banana fruit. J. Sci. Food Agric. 63:1993;257-259
50. Watada A.E., Hermer R.C., Kader A.A., Romani R.J., Staby G.L. Terminology for the description of developmental stages of horticultural crops. HortScience. 19:1984;20-21
51. Westerlund E., Åman P., Anderson R., Anderson R.E. Chemical characterization of water-soluble pectin in papaya fruit. Carbohyd. Polym. 15:1991;67-78
52. Yoshioka H., Aoba K., Kashimura Y. Molecular weight and degree of methoxylation in cell wall polyuronide during softening in pear and apple fruit. J. Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. 117:1992;600-606