Regulation Mechanism of Fruit Ripening and Quality in Horticultural Crops
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 5873
Special Issue Editors
Interests: postharvest biology of horticultural crops; fruit ripening; transcriptional regulation; post-translational modification; epigenetics/epigenomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: fruit ripening; transcriptional regulation; post-translational modification; redox signaling; epigenetics/epigenomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fleshy fruits represent an important food source for humans. Ripening undergoes drastic changes in color, texture, flavor, and nutrition, which has important impacts on the formation of edible fruit quality. Therefore, unraveling the regulatory mechanisms of fruit ripening is biologically interesting and economically important for developing strategies to improve fruit nutritional and sensory quality. In the past decade, rapid advances have been made in the mechanisms of fruit ripening and quality formation. Ripening is finely governed by a highly coordinated network encompassed by hormones, transcriptional regulators, epigenomic modifications, and other regulatory elements. However, there are still many aspects during this process that need to be urgently solved. Thus, the scope of this Special Issue is to cover the regulatory mechanism of fruit ripening and quality formation, particularly focusing on transcriptional regulation, post-translational modification, redox signaling, and epigenetics, not only to shed new light on the regulatory mechanism of fruit ripening and quality formation but also to contribute to developing strategies to improve fruit nutritional and sensory quality.
Prof. Dr. Xuewu Duan
Dr. Guoxiang Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fruit ripening
- fruit quality
- reactive oxygen species
- transcriptional regulation
- post-translational modification
- redox signaling
- epigenetics
- postharvest technology
