Ripening
Ripening This lemon will turn yellow as it ripens. Ripe lemons. Ripening is a process in fruit that causes them to become more edible ... hormones. An important plant hormone involved with ripening is the chemical ethylene, a gas created ... causes increased levels of certain enzymes in fruit, which include: Amylase, which breaks down ...
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Fruit
Fruit This article is about botanic and culinary ... fruits. For the computer chess program, see Fruit. For more links to types of fruits see list of fruits. Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding ...
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Talk:Ripening
Talk:Ripening Shortage of pollinators can be an unrecognized factor in poor ripening of fruit. In a test in the Rio Grande ... due to increased sugar content in the fruit. That's cool, but I'd like ...
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Category:Fruit
Category:Fruit Articles and media on this topic in ... projects can be found at: Commons Category Fruit Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Fruit In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its ... 13 subcategories to this category. A Accessory fruit Apples B Beans C Fruit and ...
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Mango (fruit)   (translated from French)
Mango (fruit) mango is the tropical fruit of manguier , of the family of anacardiacées ... venerated by Hindus. The shape of its fruit is the base of decoration cashmere. Its ... Mangos Synopsis Description The mango is one fruit fleshy, its weight varies from 300 to ... According to the varieties or when the fruit has too much maturity, the flesh ...
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Banana
... a tree. It is cultivated for its fruit, which also bears the same name. Bananas ... countries worldwide, more than for any other fruit crop. Bananas are native to tropical southeastern ... to both the plant and its elongated fruit (technically a false berry) which grow in hanging clusters, with up to 20 fruit to a tier (called a hand), and ... and can weigh from 30–50 kg. The fruit averages 125g, of which approximately 75% ...
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Durian
... wyattsmithii Durio zibethinus The durian is the fruit of several species of trees in the ... eastern Asia. Only six species produce edible fruit,Morton. [1] and Durio zibethinus ... markets in their native region. The durian fruit is distinctive for its large size, unique ... English Dictionary 1897; Huxley 1992. The fruit can grow up to 40 cm long ... to five kg. The colour of the fruit ranges from green to brown, the ...
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Tomato
... a cyme of 3-12 together. The fruit is an edible, brightly coloured (usually red ... other peoples in the region used the fruit in their cooking, and it was being ... tomato, a mutation from a smoother, smaller fruit, originated and was encouraged in Central America ... tomato dishes, as the wonders of the fruit became obvious. But this took several centuries ... and stems are indeed poisonous but the fruit is safe). Gerard's views were ...
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Garden Strawberry
... it is in the family Rosaceae; its fruit is more technically known as an accessory fruit, in that the fleshy part is derived ... flavour, shape, degree of fertility, season of ripening, liability to disease and constitution of plant ... to put most of their energy into fruit development. At the end of the harvest ... old begin to decline in productivity and fruit quality, this system of replacing the ...
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Mango
Mango This article is about the fruit. For other meanings of the word, please ... see Mango (disambiguation). ? Mango Immature Black Mango fruit Scientific classification