Ribosomes from Pear Fruit
Lily (Lim) Ku 1 and
Roger J. Romani 1
1 Department of Pomology, University of California, Davis
Ribosomes, subunits and polysomes, have been isolated from cells of ripening (senescent) fruit. Sedimentation in sucrose gradients, sedimentation constants, and electron micrographs confirm the physical resemblance of fruit ribosomes to those from other living tissues.