Advances in Fruit Quality Formation and Regulation

Dear Colleagues,

Fruit quality is determined by both genetic (species/cultivars) and environmental factors. From both applied and basic research, the quality traits, for a specific cultivar, could be significantly altered by preharvest (developmental) and post-harvest treatments/technologies. Thus, in addition to the genetic differences, the pre-/post-harvest regulations on fruit quality have been guiding most of the related research, which should eventually benefit quality improvement. In the past decade, mechanisms of fruit quality formation and regulation have gained rapid advances, from physiology to molecular aspects. Furthermore, many key genes/transcription factors related to quality changes have been identified and their functions, likewise, revealed. However, there are still many basic theoretical problems that need to be solved urgently—the post-harvest fruit quality maintenance mechanism and the mature and senescence regulation network are still incomplete, the interaction mechanism between environmental conditions and endogenous factors is not clear, and the similarities, differences, and laws of different types of fruit quality maintenance regulation methods are still unclear. In addition, it is notable that the unbalances among the various quality traits (i.e., anthocyanin metabolism has gained the most focus) and fruit species, and, apart from transcriptional regulatory, other mechanisms such as translation regulation, translation modification and microRNA, should receive more attention. The purpose of this Topical Collection is to present the recent advances in fruit quality formation and regulation. This Topical Collection will mainly focus on pre-/post-harvest regulations on fruit quality and aims to cover various quality traits, including (but not limited to) flavor, aroma, texture and color.

Prof. Dr. Xueren Yin
Prof. Dr. Qinggang Zhu
Dr. Wenqiu Wang
Collection Editors

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