This prevents fruit from over-ripening on the journey. It is ripened during storage by adding ethene and then taken to the shops. The effect of ethene released from bananas is clearly visible if ...

Ethene speeds up the ripening of bananas Some hormones slow the ripening of fruits and others speed it up. These hormones and their inhibitors are useful for delaying ripening during transport or ...

Some fruits, like oranges, don’t respond to ethene, but there are many processes in plants that respond to ethene as a signal.” Very scientific! So, apart from keeping them out of the fruit ...