figs have ripened this year!” Babette is a very young girl. Because she is a young girl‚ she has certain innocence about her. She picked the figs from the tree. She presented them to her godmother. Her response to her godmother’s statement on the ripening of the figs was “I think they have ripened very late.” This paragraph explains the contrasts between staidness and exuberance. Babette is exuberant. She is excited for the fig- tree to ripen so she can visit her cousins. She is outside dancing
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impatience is making her. In contrast to Babette‚ Maman Nainaine is patient enough to wait on the seasons. This shows her ability to be patient and also the maturity she has over Babette. Maman Nainaine’s decision to make Babette wait until the ripening of the figs to go visit her
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development and ripening are unique to plants and represent an important component of human and animal diets.” (Giovannoni‚ 2004‚ para 1) The softening of fruit involves the partial breakdown of cell walls. Ripening involves the softening‚ increased juiciness and sweetness‚ and color changes of the fruit. Changes in fruit color involve changes in the expression of pigment biosynthetic gene. Ripening represents the shift from the protective function to dispersal function of the fruit. Ripening takes place
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plants Ethylene. Ethylene is a hormone that is used by plants to ripen fruits. In Bangladesh and some parts of South-East Asia‚ Calcium Carbide is used as a ripening agent of certain fruits like mango‚ banana‚ pineapple‚ papaya‚ jackfruits‚ litchis‚ tomato‚ and many others more [Wikipedia]. In Bangladesh many fruits are picked prior to ripening‚ which is useful‚ because ripened fruits are not easy to ship‚ and do not have a long shelf life. For example‚ bananas are picked when green and artificially
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LAST LONGER? The topic I have chosen is very important in terms of agriculture because it will help us most specially the banana dealers‚ exporters and importers to equip enough knowledge on how to prevent banana from early deterioration or over ripening only in a small period of time during the transportation. A solution finally may be at hand for the number one consumer gripe about bananas: their tendency to ripen‚ soften and rot into an unappetizing mush‚ seemingly in the blink of an eye.
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attract the insects‚ bugs and rodent that harmful to our fruit. To harvest banana usually are done during early morning or at the evening this is because we don’t want the banana are exposed to heat of the sun cause it can disrupt the process of ripening of banana. After harvest the banana. The clusters of banana are place on top of soft material like sponge or the banana leave as mat. This step is to avoid the friction between the bananas to ensure no bruise on the banana skin. After harvest the
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markets in the country‚ it will have ripened and will fetch a good price . About 300 to 400 trucks carrying around 8‚000 tons of mangoes arrive every day at the Mandi these days. Talking about the large-scale use of calcium carbide as a fruit ripening agent decades ago onions were used for the same purpose. In case of bananas‚ however‚ kilns were the norm. People turned to calcium carbide because the method was cost-efficient‚ easier and gave excellent results. Today‚ fruit matured with the
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observed that T1 has the lowest number of anthracnose rings present in the papayas. Anthracnose is a disease of fruit and vegetables that occurs in tropical areas caused by Colletotrichum spp. This infects immature fruits which only shows up after ripening (Solgi & Ghorbanpour‚ 2014). Even though lemongrass essential oil is anti-fungal‚ it did not prevent the anthracnose rings to occur. In an experiment conducted by Bevilacqua et al. (2011)‚ lemongrass was tested on various spoiling bacteria such as
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and generation that probably used the changing seasons as their timeline due to the lack of electricity. This thought places Maman-Nainaine in the older generation. It also helps the reader to understand the reasoning why Maman-Nainaine uses the ripening of the figs. She is most likely from a generation of farmers who had to know when to plant‚ fertilize‚ and harvest based on the changing of the seasons. If they miscalculated‚ their crop would not do well. Babette‚ on the other hand‚ is of a youthful
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is used to accelerate the ripening of fruits and is most commonly used on bananas and also on citrus fruits. The other use of ethene is in the manufacture of plastics‚ such as packing films‚ wire coatings‚ and squeeze bottles. Fruit: Ethene is made from the process of cracking hydrocarbons from petroleum. Ethene can then be used to make other raw materials like‚ ethanal‚ ethanol‚ and ethyl chloride. Ethene also occurs naturally in plants and stimulates the ripening of fruits. However by keeping
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