Changes in sugars, total protein, and oil in 'Hass' avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruit during ripening

Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 381-387

  Blakey, R J ^a,b   Tesfay, S Z ^a   Bertling, I ^a   Bower, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Westfalia Technological Services   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870554845     PISSN: 14620316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14620316.2012.11512880     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. AWAD, M. and YOUNG, R. (1979). Postharvest variation in cellulase, polygalacturonase, and pectinmethylesterase in avocado (Persea americana Mill, cv. Fuerte) fruits in relation to respiration and ethylene production. Plant Physiology 64, 306-308.
2. BASCIANO, H., FEDERICO, L. and ADELI, K. (2005). Fructose, insulin resistance, and metabolic dyslipidemia. Nutrition & Metabolism, 2, 5.
3. BLAKEY, R. J., BOWER, J. P. and BERTLING, I. (2009). Influence of water and ABA supply on the ripening pattern of avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruit and the prediction of water content using near infrared spectroscopy. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 53, 72-76.
4. BLANKE, M. M. (1991). Respiration of apple and avocado fruits. Postharvest News and Information, 2, 429-436.
5. BRADFORD, M. M. (1976). A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Analytical Biochemistry, 72, 248-254.
6. HOFMAN, P. J., FUCHS, Y. and MILNE, D. L. (2002). Harvesting, packing, postharvest technology, transport and processing. In: The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses. (Whiley, A. W., Schaffer, B. and Wolstenholme, B. N., Eds). CABI Publishing. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 363-391.
7. KANELLIS, A. K. and KALAITZIS, P. (1992). Cellulase occurs in multiple active forms in ripe avocado fruit mesocarp. Plant Physiology, 98, 530-534.
8. KANELLIS, A. K., SOLOMOS, T. and MATTOO, A. K. (1989). Hydrolytic enzyme activities and protein pattern of avocado fruit ripened in air and in low oxygen, with and without ethylene. Plant Physiology, 90, 259-266.
9. KÖHNE, J. S., KREMER-KÖHNE, S. and GAY, S. H. (1998). Non- destructive avocado fruit firmness measurement. South African Avocado Growers' Association Yearbook, 21, 19-21.
10. LANDAHL, S., MEYER, M. and TERRY, L. (2009). Spatial and temporal analysis of textural and biochemical changes of imported avocado cv. Hass during fruit ripening. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 57, 7039-7047.
11. LIU, X., ROBINSON, P. W., MADORE, M. A., WITNEY, G. W. and ARPAIA, M. L. (1999). 'Hass' avocado carbohydrate fluctuations. II. Fruit growth and ripening. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 124, 676-681.
12. MEYER, M. D. and TERRY, L. A. (2008). Development of a rapid method for the sequential extraction and subsequent quantification of fatty acids and sugars from avocado mesocarp tissue. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 56, 7439-7445.
13. MEYER, M. D. and TERRY, L. A. (2010). Fatty acid and sugar composition of avocado, cv. Hass, in response to treatment with an ethylene scavenger or 1-methylcyclopropene to extend storage life. Food Chemistry, 121, 1203-1210.
14. MOSTERT, M., BOTHA, B., DU PLESSIS, L. and DUODU, K. (2007). Effect of fruit ripeness and method of fruit drying on the extractability of avocado oil with hexane and supercritical carbon dioxide. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 87,2880-2885.
15. O'DONOGHUE, E. M., HUBER, D. J., TIMPA, J. D., ERDOS, G. W. and BRECHT, J. K. (1994). Influence of avocado (Persea americana) Cx-cellulase on the structural features of avocado cellulose. Planta, 194, 573-584.
16. RICHINGS, E., CRIPPS, R. and COWAN, A. (2000). Factors affecting 'Hass' avocado fruit size: carbohydrate, abscisic acid and isoprenoid metabolism in normal and phenotypically small fruit. Physiologia Plantarum, 109, 81-89.
17. ROLLAND, F., MOORE, B. and SHEEN, J. (2002). Sugar sensing and signaling in plants. The Plant Cell Supplement, S185-S205.
18. TESFAY, S. Z. (2009). Special Carbohydrates of Avocado - Their Function as 'Sources of Energy' and 'Anti-oxidants'. Ph.D.Thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 182 pp.
19. TESFAY, S. Z., BERTLING, I. and BOWER, J. P. (2010). Anti-oxidant levels in various tissues during the maturation of 'Hass' avocado (Persea americana Mill.). Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology, 85, 106-112.
20. THORP, T. G., BARNETT, A. M., BOLDINGH, H., ELMSLY, T. A. and MINCHIN, P. E. H. (2011). Is boron transport to avocado flowers regulated by carbohydrate supply? Proceedings of the 7th World Avocado Congress. Cairns,Australia. 6 pp.
21. ZAVARONI, I., CHEN, Y. and REAVEN, G. (1982). Studies of the mechanism of fructose-induced hypertriglyceridemia in the rat. Metabolism, 31, 1077-1083.