These hormones and their inhibitors are useful for delaying ripening during transport or when fruit is displayed in shops. Ethene is a plant hormone which causes fruit to ripen.

This prevents fruit from over-ripening on the journey. It is ripened during storage by adding ethene and then taken to the shops. The effect of ethene released from bananas is clearly visible if ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday issued a final rule on pollutants including ethylene oxide and chloroprene, affecting about 200 plants. The EPA said the rule, once in effect ...

KAZAN, December 20. /TASS/. The EP-600 ethylene plant construction project implemented by Sibur in Tatarstan is 70% implemented, the press service of Nizhnekamskneftekhim, a member of Sibur Group ...