Rivero Meza, S.L.; de Castro Tobaruela, E.; Benedetti Pascoal, G.; Louro Massaretto, I.; Purgatto, E. Post-Harvest Treatment with Methyl Jasmonate Impacts Lipid Metabolism in Tomato Pericarp (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Grape) at Different Ripening Stages. Foods2021, 10, 877.
Rivero Meza, S.L.; de Castro Tobaruela, E.; Benedetti Pascoal, G.; Louro Massaretto, I.; Purgatto, E. Post-Harvest Treatment with Methyl Jasmonate Impacts Lipid Metabolism in Tomato Pericarp (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Grape) at Different Ripening Stages. Foods 2021, 10, 877.
Rivero Meza, S.L.; de Castro Tobaruela, E.; Benedetti Pascoal, G.; Louro Massaretto, I.; Purgatto, E. Post-Harvest Treatment with Methyl Jasmonate Impacts Lipid Metabolism in Tomato Pericarp (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Grape) at Different Ripening Stages. Foods2021, 10, 877.
Rivero Meza, S.L.; de Castro Tobaruela, E.; Benedetti Pascoal, G.; Louro Massaretto, I.; Purgatto, E. Post-Harvest Treatment with Methyl Jasmonate Impacts Lipid Metabolism in Tomato Pericarp (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Grape) at Different Ripening Stages. Foods 2021, 10, 877.
Abstract
Application of exogenous jasmonate can stimulate the production of ethylene, carotenoids and aroma compounds, resulting in the acceleration of fruit ripening. These alterations improve fruit quality and make fruit desirable for human consumption, but overripening of a fruit results in large losses of fruit crops. In order to overcome this problem, 1-methylcyclopropene was ap-plied to the fruits due to its capacity to block the receptors of ethylene, resulting in the sup-pressed of fruit ripening. In this study, treatments only with 1-methylcyclopropene, and with both 1-methylcyclopropene and methyl jasmonate was conducted to observe if an exogenous methyl jasmonate can improve the levels of metabolites in their fruits with ethylene receptors blocked. Fruits were analyzed at 4, 10 and 21 day after harvest (DAH) and compared with the no treated fruits. The postharvest treatments affected primary metabolites (sugars, organic acids, amino acids and fatty acids) and secondary metabolites (carotenoids, tocopherols and phytoster-ols). However, the lipid metabolism of the tomato was the most impacted by the exogenous jasmonate. Fatty acids, carotenoids, tocopherols and phytosterols showed a delay in their pro-duction at 4 and 10 DAH. In contrast, at 21 DAH these non-polar metabolites exhibited an im-portant improvement in their accumulation.
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