Horticultural fruits are one of the important nutrition sources for human beings. They can provide nutrients like organic acids, vitamins, etc., that benefit human health and also contain antioxidant compounds that can be used for food functionalization. Therefore, the breeders always try to select excellent germplasms to improve the quality of fruits to meet human requirements. High fruit quality can improve the market competitiveness of fruit products and also increase farmers' income. The fruit quality usually consists of external quality (fruit shape and size, color, etc.), internal quality (flavor, texture, aroma and nutrition etc.), processing quality (juice yield etc.), and storage quality (long shelf-life). To improve quality, producers and breeders need not only to know the key genes that regulate the fruit quality but also to understand the technological and environmental factors affecting quality.
The aim of this Research Topic is to explore the core genes and the key factors that affect the fruit quality of horticultural crops. In order to understand how those genes and factors contribute to the relative trait of fruit quality. All the articles published on this topic will provide advanced insight into the mechanism of formation and regulation of fruit quality.
This Research Topic will collect the relevant research papers including, but not limited to the below potential topics:
- Genetic research on important traits of fruit quality using modern biotechnology.
- Functional identification of key genes regulating fruit quality.
- Relative factors affecting the fruit quality, including production measures, environmental factors or exogenous hormones, etc.
Horticultural fruits are one of the important nutrition sources for human beings. They can provide nutrients like organic acids, vitamins, etc., that benefit human health and also contain antioxidant compounds that can be used for food functionalization. Therefore, the breeders always try to select excellent germplasms to improve the quality of fruits to meet human requirements. High fruit quality can improve the market competitiveness of fruit products and also increase farmers' income. The fruit quality usually consists of external quality (fruit shape and size, color, etc.), internal quality (flavor, texture, aroma and nutrition etc.), processing quality (juice yield etc.), and storage quality (long shelf-life). To improve quality, producers and breeders need not only to know the key genes that regulate the fruit quality but also to understand the technological and environmental factors affecting quality.
The aim of this Research Topic is to explore the core genes and the key factors that affect the fruit quality of horticultural crops. In order to understand how those genes and factors contribute to the relative trait of fruit quality. All the articles published on this topic will provide advanced insight into the mechanism of formation and regulation of fruit quality.
This Research Topic will collect the relevant research papers including, but not limited to the below potential topics:
- Genetic research on important traits of fruit quality using modern biotechnology.
- Functional identification of key genes regulating fruit quality.
- Relative factors affecting the fruit quality, including production measures, environmental factors or exogenous hormones, etc.