Calcium chloride connects potato greening and enzymatic browning through salicylic acid
Jingkui Shi, Wenxin Xie, Yanmei Sun, Qingyu Shi, Xin Xing, Qingguo Wang, Qingqing Li · 2024
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Jingkui Shi and co-authors show in a 2024 study that two potato flaws, greening and browning, are linked through one plant signal. Both flaws waste stored potatoes. Gene reads of greened spuds turned up browning genes switched on, and greened spuds did brown more.
A calcium salt spray blocked both flaws. When a blocker of the signal's making was added, that protection faded, which tied the salt's effect to the signal, called salicylic acid. Spraying the signal itself also curbed browning. One shared switch could let stores fight both flaws with a single treatment.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jingkui Shi, Wenxin Xie, Yanmei Sun, Qingyu Shi, Xin Xing, Qingguo Wang, Qingqing Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |