Fruit is an important plant organ. The fruit development involves a change of structure, texture, color, aroma, and serials of the component accumulation associated with the postripeness changes. Therefore, pre-and postharvest management or treatment is very important to improve fruit size, and yield, resist the infection of bacteria or fungus, delay the shelf life and keep the quality.
In addition, the molecular regulations of fruit development, ripening, or postharvest senescence accompanied all the physiological change processes. These regulations include the physiologically related genes and the mediating factors such as transcription factors, enzymes, proteins, etc. For example, more and more transcription factors like MADS, MYB, and WRKY family factors which take part in the regulation of abiotic stress, leaf senescence, and fruit ripening are focused on by researchers.
As in other plant organs, a skin whose outer surface is coated by a continuous extracellular membrane, the fruit cuticle, covers the fruits of most species. The cuticle covers the aerial epidermis of land plants and is a thin continuous layer (< 0.1–10 µm) synthesized predominantly by the epidermal cells of fruits, leaves, primary stems and organs of ?owers. It plays a vitally important role in the resistance of water loss, pathogen infection, and foliar uptake.
The aim of the present topic intends to shed light on different aspects of fruit development and ripening from structure, and function, to the regulation of molecular genetics.
Specifically:
1) the change of pre-and postharvest physiological metabolisms before or after different treatments;
2) the regulation of fruit development, ripening, and senescence at the molecular level;
3) the synthesis and function of cuticle constituents on water relations, pathogen infection, and compound uptake in different kinds of fruit species, will be focused on and investigated.
Fruit is an important plant organ. The fruit development involves a change of structure, texture, color, aroma, and serials of the component accumulation associated with the postripeness changes. Therefore, pre-and postharvest management or treatment is very important to improve fruit size, and yield, resist the infection of bacteria or fungus, delay the shelf life and keep the quality.
In addition, the molecular regulations of fruit development, ripening, or postharvest senescence accompanied all the physiological change processes. These regulations include the physiologically related genes and the mediating factors such as transcription factors, enzymes, proteins, etc. For example, more and more transcription factors like MADS, MYB, and WRKY family factors which take part in the regulation of abiotic stress, leaf senescence, and fruit ripening are focused on by researchers.
As in other plant organs, a skin whose outer surface is coated by a continuous extracellular membrane, the fruit cuticle, covers the fruits of most species. The cuticle covers the aerial epidermis of land plants and is a thin continuous layer (< 0.1–10 µm) synthesized predominantly by the epidermal cells of fruits, leaves, primary stems and organs of ?owers. It plays a vitally important role in the resistance of water loss, pathogen infection, and foliar uptake.
The aim of the present topic intends to shed light on different aspects of fruit development and ripening from structure, and function, to the regulation of molecular genetics.
Specifically:
1) the change of pre-and postharvest physiological metabolisms before or after different treatments;
2) the regulation of fruit development, ripening, and senescence at the molecular level;
3) the synthesis and function of cuticle constituents on water relations, pathogen infection, and compound uptake in different kinds of fruit species, will be focused on and investigated.
