Fruit flavor and nutritional characteristics are key quality traits and ones of the main factors
influencing consumer preference. Central carbon metabolism, also known as primary …

Aroma volatiles are essential for plant ecological fitness and reproduction. Plants produce
and use volatiles to attract pollinators and seed dispersers, repel herbivores and recruit their …

Although amino acids are critical for all forms of life, only proteogenic amino acids that
humans and animals cannot synthesize de novo and therefore must acquire in their diets …

Phenylpropanoids comprise an important class of plant secondary metabolites. A number of
transcription factors have been used to upregulate-specific branches of phenylpropanoid …

Amino acids play several critical roles in plants, from providing the building blocks of
proteins to being essential metabolites interacting with many branches of metabolism. They …

To better understand the function of melatonin in tomato fruit ripening and quality
improvement, a label‐free quantitation method was used to investigate the proteins that …

The plant shikimate pathway directs bulk carbon flow toward biosynthesis of aromatic amino
acids (AAAs, ie tyrosine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan) and numerous aromatic …

Tomato has a relatively short growth cycle (fruit ready to pick within 65–85 days from
planting) and a relatively high yield (the average for globe tomatoes is 3–9 kg fruit per plant …

Tomato, a widely consumed vegetable crop, offers a real potential to combat human
nutritional deficiencies. Tomatoes are rich in micronutrients and other bioactive compounds …

The present review aims to synthesize our present knowledge about the mechanisms
implied in the biosynthesis of volatile compounds in the ripe tomato fruit, which have a key …