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Postharvest Hormone Changes in Vegetables and Fruit

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At the time of harvest, there is a large potential for change in physiological processes going on in edible plant tissue. On removal from the parent plant, vegetables are deprived of their normal supply of water, minerals, and organic molecules including hormones, which normally would be supplied by translocation from other parts of the plant. Although little new photosynthesis is being carried out, there is active transpiration, and tissues can transform many of the constituents already present. While postharvest changes in fresh vegetables cannot be stopped, they can be slowed down within certain limits.

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Ludford, P.M. (1995). Postharvest Hormone Changes in Vegetables and Fruit. In: Davies, P.J. (eds) Plant Hormones. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0473-9_33

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