Experimental study reveals biphasic thermal inactivation of ethylene-forming enzymes in papayas, indicating commercial quarantine heat protocols primarily affect heat-susceptible fractions.
Heat inactivation studies were conducted on the ethylene‐forming enzyme system (EFE) in papayas. Heat inactivation of the papaya EFE was biphasic and both phases followed first order kinetics. The activation energies E, for the thermal inactivation of the heat resistant (HR) and the heat susceptible (HS) EFEs were 68.3 and 51.2 Kcal/ mole, respectively. The thermodynamic constants for the heat inactivation of both EFEs were; enthalapy, 5 1.2 kcal/mole for HS and 66.7 kcal/mole for HR; free energy, 22.5 kcal/mole for HS and 23.3 kcal/mole for HR; entropy, 87.2 cal/deg‐mole for HS and 137.8 call degmole for HR. The heat resistant EFE appeared to compromise about 25% of the total EFE activity. Commercial heat treatments used for quarantine treatments affected mainly the heat susceptible portion which comprised the remaining 75% of the total EFE activity.
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