Trying to ripen some fruits on your kitchen counter is totally fruitless - here's why.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: climacteric: a pattern of fruit ripening associated with increased ethylene production and a rise in cellular respiration (meaning that the fruit can ripen off the plant) nonclimacteric: ripening that is not characterized by a peak of ethylene production or respiration (and must happen on the plant)

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Sarah Berman • Arcadi Garcia i Rius David Goldenberg • Julián Gustavo Gómez Melissa Hayes • Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida

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Footage by Kate Yoshida:

• Fruits on counter
• Pineapple cut
• Grocery store fruits

Cherry photo by Khoa Ma https://unsplash.com/photos/Y2OD2mO3-AM

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REFERENCES

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Cherian, S., Figueroa, C. R., and Nair, H. (2014). ‘Movers and shakers’ in the regulation of fruit ripening: a cross-dissection of climacteric versus non-climacteric fruit. J. Exp. Bot. 65, 4705–4722. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24994760/

Fukano Y. & Tachiki Y. (2021). Evolutionary ecology of climacteric and non-climacteric fruits. Biology Letters 17 (9). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0352

Leng, P., Yuan, B., & Guo, Y. (2014). The role of abscisic acid in fruit ripening and responses to abiotic stress. J. Exp. Bot. 65, 4577–4588. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/65/16/4577/2877414

Lu, P. T. et al. (2018). Genome encode analyses reveal the basis of convergent evolution of fleshy fruit ripening. Nat. Plants 4, 784–791. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0249-z

Paul V., Pandey R., & Srivastava G.C. (2012). The fading distinctions between classical patterns of ripening in climacteric and non-climacteric fruit and the ubiquity of ethylene - an overview. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 49:01-21. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23572821/