AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -So, If you were shipping green bananas to a supermarket thousand of miles away, ethylene chemical eliminate from the plants’ environment.

Detailed explanation-2: -To prevent bananas from ripening and spoiling, you would want to eliminate the presence of auxin, CO2, cytokinins, gibberellic acids, and ethylene from the plants’ environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The banana shipment must be kept at a cool temperature at all times to ensure the bananas don’t ripen and then rot. The container terminal can take the banana shipment straight from the truck to the boat. During this time, the bananas are hooked up to electricity to get cool air moving throughout the container bed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethylene is an important plant hormone. In bananas and many other fruits, production of ethylene surges when the fruit is ready to ripen. This surge triggers the transformation of a hard, green, dull fruit into a tender, gaudy, sweet thing that’s ready-to-eat.

Detailed explanation-5: -For this purpose, banana ripening gas, a mixture of ethylene/nitrogen, is used. Ethylene is a phytohormone that is necessary in all plants for the production and maturation of the fruit body.