R & D Magazine Fresh fruit not rotting vegetables: Ethylene released from fruits and vegetables accelerates their spoiling even Ripening fruit, vegetables, and flowers release ethylene , which works as a plant hormone. Ethylene accelerates ripening, so other unripened ... and more »
SBWire (press release) Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/13/2013 -- Ethylene is a hydrocarbon which is widely used in the chemical industry and as a natural plant hormone. It is used in many industrial reactions such as in polymerization, halogenations and hydrogenation ...