Trying to ripen some fruits on your kitchen counter is totally fruitless here's why.

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climacteric: a pattern of fruit ripening associated with increased ethylene production and a rise in cellular respiration (meaning that the fruit can ripen off the plant)
nonclimacteric: ripening that is not characterized by a peak of ethylene production or respiration (and must happen on the plant)

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Fruits on counter
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REFERENCES
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Cherian, S., Figueroa, C. R., and Nair, H. (2014). ‘Movers and shakers’ in the regulation of fruit ripening: a crossdissection of climacteric versus nonclimacteric fruit. J. Exp. Bot. 65, 4705–4722. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24994...

Fukano Y. & Tachiki Y. (2021). Evolutionary ecology of climacteric and nonclimacteric fruits. Biology Letters 17 (9). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...

Leng, P., Yuan, B., & Guo, Y. (2014). The role of abscisic acid in fruit ripening and responses to abiotic stress. J. Exp. Bot. 65, 4577–4588. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

Lu, P. T. et al. (2018). Genome encode analyses reveal the basis of convergent evolution of fleshy fruit ripening. Nat. Plants 4, 784–791. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4147...

Paul V., Pandey R., & Srivastava G.C. (2012). The fading distinctions between classical patterns of ripening in climacteric and nonclimacteric fruit and the ubiquity of ethylene an overview. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 49:0121. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23572...