Sentences with phrase «on ethylene gas»
Raised on chemicals and harvested long, long before ripe, «green tennis ball» tomatoes depend on ethylene gas to turn red.
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Not just in space but even here on Earth, supermarkets, cold storage warehouses and food processors are all concerned about reducing ethylene gas that ultimately shortens; the shelf life, storage life, and home life of their products.
The technique allowed the researchers to image graphene nucleating and growing on a polycrystalline platinum metal foil that was heated up to around 1000 °C with a laser while being exposed to a hydrocarbon gas (ethylene).
To speed up the process, put them next to bananas, which produce an ethylene gas that accelerates ripening. To check if your pear is ready to eat, press on the neck.
When you want certain fruits to mature faster, simply store them on the counter (or in a plain paper bag) with other fruits that emit high levels of ethylene gas.
It may suppres the formation and actions of ethylene, which is a strong growth inhibitor (and a plant poison in elevated dosis) and a ripening gas (reason that you need a lot of ventilation on banana ships).
To pull this off they stack tomatoes in large warehouses on palates and pump in ethylene gas (a naturally occurring gas created by vegetation, in this case created by petroleum) to trick the tomatoes into ripening.