The pivotal role of phytohormones during fruit development and ripening is considered
established knowledge in plant biology. Perhaps less well-known is the growing body of …

The plant hormone ethylene plays a key role in climacteric fruit ripening. Studies on
components of ethylene signaling have revealed a linear transduction pathway leading to …

In this study, the effect of melatonin on the postharvest ripening and quality improvement of
tomato fruit was carried out. The tomatoes were immersed in exogenous melatonin for 2h …

Tomato ripening is a highly coordinated developmental process that coincides with seed
maturation. Regulated expression of thousands of genes controls fruit softening as well as …

Carotenoids serve diverse functions in vastly different organisms that both produce and
consume them. Enhanced carotenoid accumulation is of great importance in the visual and …

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 …

▪ Abstract Ethylene regulates a multitude of plant processes, ranging from seed germination
to organ senescence. Of particular economic importance is the role of ethylene as an …

Although remarkable progress has been made toward understanding carotenoid
biosynthesis, the mechanisms that regulate the transcription of carotenogenic genes remain …

Elucidating the mechanisms involved in ripening of climacteric fruit and the role that
ethylene plays in the process are key to understanding fruit production and quality. In this …

The tomato non-ripening (nor) mutant generates a truncated 186-amino-acid protein
(NOR186) and has been demonstrated previously to be a gain-of-function mutant. Here, we …