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Fatty Acid Control of Ethane Production by Sub-cellular Particles from Apples and its Possible Relationship to Ethylene Biosynthesis

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Burg and Burg1 have pointed out that the gas evolved in incubation mixtures of thiomalio acid and sub-cellular particles from apples and tomatoes was in fact not ethylene, as previously reported2. However, the appearance of an ‘ethylene-like’ gas which chromatographed very close to ethylene was confirmed. The purpose of this communication is to identify the ‘ethylene-like’ gas, to report that linolenic acid may be an important component of the enzymatic system, and to indicate the possible pertinence of this system to the pathway for ethylene biosynthesis in plant cells.

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  1. Pioneering Research Laboratory, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md.

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  2. Low Temperature Research Station, Agricultural Research Council, Cambridge

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LIEBERMAN, M., MAPSON, L. Fatty Acid Control of Ethane Production by Sub-cellular Particles from Apples and its Possible Relationship to Ethylene Biosynthesis. Nature 195, 1016–1017 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951016a0

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