The fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea causes grey mould, a commercially damaging disease
of strawberry. This pathogen affects fruit in the field, storage, transport and market. The …

Global warming leads to the concurrence of a number of abiotic and biotic stresses, thus
affecting agricultural productivity. Occurrence of abiotic stresses can alter plant–pest …

The aerial surfaces of plants are covered by a protective barrier formed by the cutin
polyester and waxes, collectively referred to as the cuticle. Plant cuticles prevent the loss of …

The plant cuticle is an extracellular hydrophobic layer that covers the aerial epidermis of all
land plants, providing protection against desiccation and external environmental stresses …

Cutin, a polyester composed mostly of oxygenated fatty acids, serves as the framework of
the plant cuticle. The same types of cutin monomers occur across most plant lineages …

The terpenoids constitute the largest class of natural products and many interesting products
are extensively applied in the industrial sector as flavors, fragrances, spices and are also …

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 …

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 …

The aerial parts of plants are covered with a cuticle, a hydrophobic layer consisting of cutin
polyester and cuticular waxes that protects them from various environmental stresses …

Solanum pimpinellifolium (SP) is the wild progenitor of cultivated tomato. Because of its
remarkable stress tolerance and intense flavor, SP has been used as an important …