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    Ethylene-The History: - Megha Garg

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    The document traces the history and discovery of ethylene from ancient times to modern research. It notes that in ancient China, smoke from burning incense, figs, pineapples, and other plants was used to ripen fruit and green leaves. In the 1860s, it was discovered that illuminating gas caused abnormal horizontal growth in pea seedlings. In the 1890s, Dimitry Neljubow, a Russian student, experimentally isolated ethylene as the substance that caused the "triple response" in pea plants. Later research found that methionine is the starting molecule for ethylene production and that ethylene acts as a plant hormone that regulates ripening and other

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    The document traces the history and discovery of ethylene from ancient times to modern research. It notes that in ancient China, smoke from burning incense, figs, pineapples, and other plants was used to ripen fruit and green leaves. In the 1860s, it was discovered that illuminating gas caused abnormal horizontal growth in pea seedlings. In the 1890s, Dimitry Neljubow, a Russian student, experimentally isolated ethylene as the substance that caused the "triple response" in pea plants. Later research found that methionine is the starting molecule for ethylene production and that ethylene acts as a plant hormone that regulates ripening and other

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    A history of ethylene and a brief account of flavr savr.

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    The document traces the history and discovery of ethylene from ancient times to modern research. It notes that in ancient China, smoke from burning incense, figs, pineapples, and other plants was used to ripen fruit and green leaves. In the 1860s, it was discovered that illuminating gas caused abnormal horizontal growth in pea seedlings. In the 1890s, Dimitry Neljubow, a Russian student, experimentally isolated ethylene as the substance that caused the "triple response" in pea plants. Later research found that methionine is the starting molecule for ethylene production and that ethylene acts as a plant hormone that regulates ripening and other

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    Ethylene-The

    History
    -Megha Garg
    From clues to discovery
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    Dimitry N. Neljubow
    17 year old student from St. Petersburg.
    Research material: Pea seedlings.
    Observation: 1. Normal vertical growth in air from
    outside the lab. 2. Horizontally growing seedlings
    in laboratory air.
    Experimentation: 1. Excluded cultural practices,
    light, and temperature as causative agents.
    Proposal: Abnormal horizontal growth occurred
    due to illuminating gas
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    tested for effect on pea
    Result: Only ethylene caused triple response
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    Flavr Savr used a gene that did not produce any


    protein.
    The antibiotic marker was harmless.
    It gave the promised delayed ripening.
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    difference from wild-
    type tomato in flavr
    savr was that the
    former had decreased
    ratio of water-soluble
    pectin.
    Bursting of Flavr Savr

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