Why would only one rotten apple make other apples rot?

Have you ever seen fruit, especially apples / bananas / mangoes when you have not yet ripe but after just a few days you did not notice it was ripe and started to rot?

That's why in the bunch of fruits you buy, there is one or several fruits that are ripe and it accidentally affects the rest. So why?

Ethylene stimulates fruit ripening faster.

When fruit is in ripening, it will produce Ethylene gas ( ethylene ) with the chemical formula CH₂ = CH₂ which stimulates the ripening of fruit . To test this out, put a ripe apple in a paper bag containing a green banana in it, and you will see green bananas in the bag that the apple will ripen faster than bananas. And the higher the temperature / humidity of the environment, the faster the fruit will ripen, and produce more gas than usual. That's why apples, and other fruits, after harvesting cold storage.

So, if you put an apple that has nine items around the other apples, all those apples will ripen very quickly . When you buy fruits, you should put them in the refrigerator compartment to be able to use them for a long time, to avoid putting them together so that they will be rotten.

Another interesting thing about fruit fruits of Ethylene production, if you put together onions and potatoes together in a closed field, potatoes will sprout faster than usual because Ethylene gas emanates from onions.