A new idea for how anti-aging products delay ripening of fruit and wilting of flowers

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Michael Pirrung is a professor of chemistry and the holder of the University of California Presidential Chair in Chemistry at UC Riverside. Credit: UC Riverside Strategic Communications
Michael Pirrung is a professor of chemistry and the holder of the University of California Presidential Chair in Chemistry at UC Riverside. Credit: UC Riverside Strategic Communications

When plants encounter ethylene, a gas they also produce naturally as a hormone, the result is softening and ripening in the case of fruit, and wilting and fading in the case of flowers – all of which ethylene promotes.


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