Page 463 - Applied Pharmacognosy
P. 463
• The gas is used commercially for ripening fruit, particularly
bananas.
• There are also synthetic compounds, such as ethephon
(chloro-ethane phosphonic acid) that can be sprayed onto
plants in solution.
• In cell sap it is broken down to ethylene and phosphate.
• It is marketed as………(Ethrel)
462
