Changes in Cell Properties during Fruit Ripening
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Developmental Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2022) | Viewed by 4362
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Knowledge of the mechanisms involved in development, ripening, and post-harvest fruit physiology is very important for producers and for companies involved in the storage of fruit. Thus, the determination of factors implicated in ripening opens new research avenues for controlling fruit quality. Fruit quality characteristics mainly depend on the biochemical machinery for the metabolism and biosynthesis of a complex composition of fruit cells. All processes leading to fruit ripening and softening are associated with remodelling of the cell wall, mainly with loosening of the connections between cell wall components.
Many current inconsistencies and gaps in biochemical information regarding broad-sense changes in the plant cell wall justify research that can identify factors leading to fruit ripening. One of the most important goals of this Special Issue is to join genetic, molecular biological, biochemical, microscopic, and immunocytochemical research efforts and create synergy between knowledge of fruit structure and physiology. The combination of multidisciplinary skills will foster the emergence of integrated approaches that may shed new light on the signals and mechanisms underlying the state-of-the-art ripening physiology, and over-ripening. Therefore, research articles, reviews, short notes, and opinion articles related to changes in extracellular matrix assembly in fruit during the growth, development, and ripening processes, as well as physiological, biochemical, and molecular studies focused on these issues, are welcome for the current Special Issue on "Changes in Cell Properties during Fruit Ripening”.
Dr. Agata Leszczuk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- arabinogalactan proteins
- cell wall
- fruit
- gene expression
- microscopy
- molecular biology
- polysaccharides
- ripening
- structure
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