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The hydrocarbon ethylene (C
2
H
4
) is a plant hormone that plays an important role in the regulation of many environmentally and developmentally induced processes, such as stress resistance, seed germination, fruit ripening, senescence, and abscission (
1
). All tissue types and probably all cells of higher plants produce and liberate ethylene (
2
). Many lower plants, such as liverworts, mosses, ferns, lycopods, and horse tails, also are producers of ethylene, although the biosynthetic route seems to be different (
2
,
3
). Tremendous progress has been achieved during the last two decades in the biochemical and molecular characterization of the biosynthetic pathway for ethylene in higher plants (
4
,
5
).