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

Friday, May 2, 2008 - 14:56 in Biology & Nature

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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