Enzyme activity and biochemical changes of three date palm cultivars with different softening pattern during ripening

Food Chemistry

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1279-1286

  Rastegar, Somayeh ^a   Rahemi, Majid ^a   Baghizadeh, Amin ^b   Gholami, Mahdiyeh ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b International Center for Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cell wall modifying enzymes; Invertase; Phoenix dactilyfera; Ripening; Sugar

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES; CELL WALLS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DATE PALM; FRUIT SOFTENING; GALACTOSIDASES; GLUCANASE; INVERTASE; INVERTASE ACTIVITY; MATURITY STAGES; MICROELEMENTS; PECTIN METHYLESTERASE; PHOENIX DACTILYFERA; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; REDUCING SUGARS; RIPENING;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ORGANIC ACIDS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SUGARS;

ACETIC ACID; BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CALCIUM; CELLULASE; CITRIC ACID; ENDO 1,3(4) BETA GLUCANASE; FRUCTOSE; FUMARIC ACID; GLUCOSE; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MALIC ACID; MANGANESE; OXALIC ACID; PECTINESTERASE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SUCROSE; TARTARIC ACID; ZINC; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBOXYLESTERASE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CULTIVAR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD TEXTURE; FRUIT FIRMNESS; FRUIT RIPENING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; CHEMISTRY; FOOD HANDLING; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PH; PHOENIX (PLANT); PROCEDURES;

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CELL WALL; CELLULASE; FOOD HANDLING; FRUIT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PHOENICEAE; WATER;

EID: 84861093251     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: 18737072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2012.02.208     Document Type: Article

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