Identification of the distribution of sugars in grapes using chemical shift selective NMR microscopy.
Images are presented which show that NMR microscopy can be used to determine the spatial distribution of sugars in grapes. The production of appreciable sugar gradients during the final ripening process was detected in parenchymatous tissues around the seeds, but these gradients disappeared in fully ripened fruit.
Goodman
B A
BA
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, UK.
Williamson
B
B
Chudek
J A
JA
D005632:Fructose / Q000032:analysis*; D005638:Fruit / Q000737:chemistry*; D005947:Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*
D005632:Fructose; D005947:Glucose