The strawberry is one of the world's most popular fruits, providing humans with vitamins,
fibers, and antioxidants. Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) is an allo-octoploid and …

Ascorbic acid plays an essential role in human health and its deficiency severely impacts
physical well-being. Fruits are a good dietary source of ascorbic acid and thereby, its …

Firmness is one of the most important fruit quality traits in strawberries. The postharvest shelf
life of this soft fruit is highly limited by the loss of firmness, where cell wall disassembly plays …

The regulatory mechanisms that link WRKY gene expression to fruit ripening are largely
unknown. Using transgenic approaches, we showed that a WRKY gene from wild strawberry …

Introduction Postharvest textural changes in fruit are mainly divided into softening and
lignification. Loquat fruit could have severe lignification with increased firmness during …

Highlights•Excessive fruit softening is a major cause of losses in the supply chain.•Reducing
depolymerisation of cell wall pectins reduces softening.•Reducing water loss by improving …

Postharvest physiological deterioration (PPD) reduces the availability and economic value
of fresh produces, resulting in the waste of agricultural products and becoming a worldwide …

This study aimed to systematically investigate the changes in peel color, physicochemical
characteristics, textural properties, and peel ultrastructure between CaCl 2-treated and water …

WRKY transcription factors play a nonnegligible role in plant growth and development, but
little is known about the involvement of WRKY transcription factors in the regulation of fruit …

Fruit softening in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is closely associated with cell wall
disassembly, which is brought about through the action of a range of cell wall structure …