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 …

Climacteric and non-climacteric fruits are differentiated by the ripening process, in particular
by the involvement of ethylene, high respiration rates and the nature of the process, being …

Commercial strawberries (Fragaria x. ananassa Duch.) are successfully grown in a broad
range of climates including temperate, grassland, mediterranean, taiga, and subtropical …

Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the
female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural …

Fleshy fruits are classically divided into climacteric and nonclimacteric types. It has long
been thought that the ripening of climacteric and nonclimacteric fruits is regulated by …

Fragaria vesca, a diploid woodland strawberry with a small and sequenced genome, is an
excellent model for studying fruit development. The strawberry fruit is unique in that the …

The evolution of seeds defines a remarkable landmark in the history of land plants. A
develo** seed contains three genetically distinct structures: the embryo, the nourishing …

Strawberry, a small fruit crop of great importance throughout the world, has been considered
a model plant system for Rosaceae, and is susceptible to a large variety of phytopathogenic …

Fruit and seed formation in plants is normally initiated after pollination and fertilization, and,
in the absence of fertilization, flowers senesce. In the Arabidopsis thaliana mutant fruit …

Auxin response factors (ARFs) encode transcriptional factors that function in the regulation
of plant development processes. A tomato ARF gene, SlARF5, was observed to be …