The phrase "accelerate ripening" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to agriculture, food science, or any discussion about speeding up the maturation process of fruits or vegetables.
Example: "To ensure the tomatoes are ready for the market sooner, we can use ethylene gas to accelerate ripening."
Alternatives: "speed up ripening" or "hasten ripening".
But if none of that fruit is pink yet, you might want to prune a few plants to accelerate ripening.
Only 5 trusses per plant and a maximum of 3 fruits per truss were kept in order to accelerate ripening and ensure homogenous fruit quality.
Recently, water deficit was shown to accelerate ripening and induce changes in gene expression regulating flavonoid biosynthesis, especially the anthocyanin pathway as measured by the increase in total anthocyanins [ 9].
MEPs also condemn as "unacceptable" the use of glyphosate in a farming practice known as "green burndown", i.e. the killing of the actual crop plant prior to harvest in order to accelerate ripening and facilitate harvesting.
However, this "pure doctrine" has obviously slipped into the background, as can be seen from the increasing preventative use of pesticides (e.g., in the form of seed coating) and in uses not primarily relating to plant protection (e.g., herbicides to accelerate ripening and to kill off foliage before harvesting).
But as it is in Champagne, accelerated ripening reduces acidity and raises sugar/alcohol, and there goes the special quality of Northern Italian white wine.
These walls acted as thermal masses and accelerated ripening by keeping plants warm.
Water deficit accelerates ripening and alters flavonoid biosynthesis, especially the anthocyanin pathway.
The 9- cis forms of neoxanthin and violaxanthin are the precursors of abscisic acid (ABA) [ 23, 24], a phytohormone known to control ripening of many fruits, including tomato, in which it triggers ethylene biosynthesis and thus accelerates ripening [ 25].
Transiently overexpressing SlCaM2 in mature green fruit delayed ripening, while reducing SlCaM2 expression accelerated ripening.
The accelerated ripening created two worries: that grapes might ripen unevenly, leading to unbalanced wines, and that various grape varieties might ripen all at once instead of in succession over several weeks, putting extra pressure on winery capacities and personnel.
