Irradiation of Fruit and Simultaneous Measurement of Respiration

Abstract

FRUIT has often been irradiated for the purpose of examining the extension of storage life through control of infective organisms^1,2. Fruit tissues, however, also lend themselves for studies in radiobiology; especially when high dose-levels are desirable to accentuate the primary cellular responses. Doses several orders of magnitude higher than those normally found to be lethal to animal systems can be tolerated by the fruit tissues, albeit with consequent manifestations of an altered metabolism.