Fruit development and ripening

Fruit development and ripening

Fruiting structures in the angiosperms range from completely dry to highly fleshy organs and provide many of our major crop products, including grains. In the model plant Arabidopsis, which has dry fruits, a high-level regulatory network of transcription factors controlling fruit development has been revealed. Studies on rare nonripening mutations in tomato, a model for fleshy fruits, have prov...

Genetic regulation of fruit development and ripening.

Fruit development and ripening are unique to plants and represent an important component of human and animal diets. Recent discoveries have shed light on the molecular basis of developmental ripening control, suggested common regulators of climacteric and nonclimacteric ripening physiology, and defined a new role for MADS box genes in this late stage of floral development. Analyses of fruit-rip...

Avocado Fruit Development and Ripening Physiology

Ripening Fruit and Abscising

Two structurally divergent endo-p-l,Cglucanase (EGase) cDNAs were cloned from tomato. Although both cDNAs (Cell and Ce12) encode potentially glycosylated, basic proteins of 51 to 53 kD and possess multiple amino acid domains conserved in both plant and microbial EGases, Cell and Ce12 exhibit only 50% amino acid identity at the overall sequence level. Amino acid sequence comparisons to other pla...

An Evaluation of the Phytochemical Properties of SomePomegranate Cultivars during Fruit Development and Ripening

The pomegranate fruit is a good source of bioactive compounds. The present study has investigated the biochemical and sensory characteristics of the arils of four Iranian commercial pomegranate cultivars namely Malase Shirine Saveh (MSS), Malase Torshe Saveh (MTS), Alak Shirine Saveh (ASS) and Agha Mohammad Ali (AMA) for several developmental and ripening stages during 45–180 days after fruit s...