Auxin’s role in the post-ripening of peaches is widely recognized as important. However, little is known about the processes by which auxin regulates fruit post-ripening. As one of the early auxin-responsive genes, it is critical to understand...
The ‘Hongyu’ apple is an early ripening apple cultivar and usually used for fresh marketing. Due to the short ripening period, most of the fruit are harvested at the commercial maturity stage for proper marketing distribution and a longer...
Sweet mogrosides are not only the primary bioactive ingredient in Siraitia grosvenorii fruits that exhibit anti-tussive properties and expectorate phlegm, but they are also responsible for the fruit’s sweetness. Increasing the content or propor...
The limited cold tolerance of the Jin Huang mango represents a significant impediment to its potential for international trade. Therefore, this study evaluated the quality index changes of green maturity Jin Huang mangoes with different post-ripening...
Microbial fermentation is an important means to enhance the nutrition and functionality of food, and soybean fermentation has a long history and a wide variety of products. This study systematically compared the effects of fermentation and post-ripen...
Chili bean paste is a traditional flavor sauce, and its flavor compounds are closely related to its microflora. This study focused on investigating the content of bioactive compounds, flavor compounds, and microbial communities during the post-ripeni...
Background/Objectives: Induction of labor at ≥41 weeks with an unfavorable cervix is challenging. Comparative evidence for double-balloon catheter (DBC)-based augmentation protocols is limited. We aimed to estimate the frequency of prolonged labor...
The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of carvacrol on the postharvest storage quality and cell wall metabolism of the ’Guichang’ kiwifruit. For this purpose, the ’Guichang’ kiwifruit is selected as the test...
Fruit ripening represents a multifaceted biological process intricately controlled by an array of plant hormones, transcription factors, and epigenetic modifications. These regulatory mechanisms are crucial in determining fruit quality and post-harve...
Fruit quality attributes interrelate with their dielectric properties, but such interrelationships in Ruaner pear during the post-ripening variable temperature frozen storage period remain uninvestigated. Five quality attributes and eight dielectric...
Peach (Prunus persica L.) represents a very important model plant given its small and publicly accessible genome, the availability of homozygous doubled haploids, and its taxonomic similarity to other popular stone fruits. Albeit it is an economicall...
Background/Objectives: Plants alter metabolites of their fruits during the ripening process, leading to improved nutritional properties and taste. In addition, metabolite compositions continue to change on the shelf after harvest. However, the dynami...
Peach post-harvest ripening is a complex developmental process controlled by a plethora of genetic and epigenetic factors. Specifically, it leads to protein, lipid and nucleic acid degradation, all resulting in cell death. Substantial research has be...
Post-harvest handling and ripening techniques have an impact on peach quality and shelf life, which has a big impact on consumer satisfaction and market competitiveness. This review paper examines recent advancements in ripening techniques and post-h...
The protein fractions of cocoa have been implicated influencing both the bioactive potential and sensory properties of cocoa and cocoa products. The objective of the present review is to show the impact of different stages of cultivation and processi...
Avocado production is mostly confined to tropical and subtropical regions, leading to lengthy distribution channels that, coupled with their unpredictable post-harvest behavior, render avocados susceptible to significant loss and waste. To enhance th...
Strawberry fruit contain the allergenic Fra a proteins, members of the pathogenesis-related 10 protein family that causes oral allergic syndrome symptoms. Fra a proteins are involved in the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway, which might be important for...
The application of exogenous jasmonate can stimulate the production of ethylene, carotenoids, and aroma compounds and accelerate fruit ripening. These alterations improve fruit quality and make fruit desirable for human consumption. However, fruit ov...
Ethylene is a key phytohormone regulating fruit ripening, the senescence of ornamental plants, and the post-harvest quality of horticultural products. Although numerous studies have described compounds that inhibit ethylene biosynthesis or perception...
Background: Post-harvest losses in bananas, particularly due to diseases such as anthracnose and stem-end rot, significantly limit their storage life and marketability. Developing effective and non-toxic treatments to prolong the shelf life of fruits...
Actively combating post-harvest food spoilage and waste can dramatically increase the efficiency of food utilization worldwide. In climacteric fruits, chemical treatments such as 1−MCP are an effective way of reducing post-harvest spoilage and...
Papaya is a fleshy fruit that undergoes fast ethylene-induced modifications. The fruit becomes edible, but the fast pulp softening is the main factor that limits the post-harvest period. Papaya fast pulp softening occurs due to cell wall disassemblin...
Rapid ripeness assessment of fruit after harvest is important to reduce post-harvest losses by sorting fruit according to the duration until they become ready to eat. However, there has been little research on non-destructive estimation of the ripene...
Durian (Durio zibethinus L.), a tropical fruit celebrated in Southeast Asia for its distinct flavor, is the focus of this comprehensive review. The fruit’s pulp is rich in high-value bioactive compounds, including gamma-glutamylcysteine, a prec...
Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is an important tropical fruit with a delicate taste, pleasant aroma, and high nutritional value. In recent years, with the promotion of the rural revitalization strategy and the development of the poverty alleviation indu...
Post-ripening fruits need to be ripened to reach edible conditions, as they are not yet mature enough when picked. Ripening technology is based mainly on temperature control and gas regulation, with the proportion of ethylene being one of the key gas...
Mango fruits are popular for their flavor. Sugar, a key component of fruit nutrition and flavor, determines fruit quality via its composition and content. While many studies explore molecular regulatory pathways of sugar metabolism in various fruits,...
Allele-specific expression (ASE) is a phenomenon in which the expression level of an allele from both parents is inconsistent, which is considered to play a key role in the differences between hybrids. As a typical climacteric fruit, banana undergoes...
The application of anti-hail nets is a practice that has been employed for a long time on different fruit and vegetable cultivations and in different fields of the world. In this work, we checked the effects of shading with white anti-hail nets on th...
Uniconazole is a commonly used dwarfing agent in agricultural production. But little is known about whether it will affect the fruit’s quality and aroma. This research aimed to reveal the effects of uniconazole on the fruit quality and aroma of...
Idesia polycarpa Maxim is a high-value species of fruit oil with edible, abundant linoleic acid and polyphenols. Idesia polycarpa is described as a dioecious species, and the flowers are male; female and bisexual flowers are produced on separate plan...
Light and temperature are key factors influencing the accumulation of anthocyanin in fruit crops. To assess the effects of fruit bagging during development and high post-ripening temperature on ‘Hongyang’ kiwifruit, we compared the pigmen...
Influenced by the maturity and material properties, fresh corn has problems, such as low picking rate, high energy consumption and high damage rate during mechanized harvesting. For the above problems, a bionic reverse picking header was designed usi...
Xuanwei ham is a traditional fermented meat product in China with a unique production process and excellent-quality reputation at home and abroad. To reveal the microbial community succession of Xuanwei ham at different post-ripening times (W1-4) and...
The banana is prone to chilling injury (CI) at low temperature and showing a series of chilling symptoms, such as peel browning, etc. Lignification is a response to abiotic stress and senescence, which is an important manifestation of fruits and vege...
Mango is prone to postharvest microbial infection, which leads to deterioration. Although essential oils show great potential for antibacterial and antioxidant applications, their effectiveness is limited by poor stability. In this study, cellulose n...
Boron (B) is a crucial micronutrient for the initial formation, development, and final quality of fruits, as it affects their physical and chemical properties and helps prevent various functional disorders. Recently, numerous physiological disorders...
Color is one of the key sensory characteristics in the evaluation of the quality of mangos (Mangifera indica) especially with regard to determining the optimal level of ripeness. However, an objective color determination of entire fruits can be a cha...
Sarcomyxa edulis is a characteristic low-temperature, edible mushroom in Northeast China. It has a delicious taste and rich nutritional and medicinal value. S. edulis can undergo explosive fruiting, neat fruiting, and unified harvesting, making it su...
This study addresses the problem of determining the avocado fruit’s harvest maturity from different harvest batches by proposing a novel image processing method in extracting peel features for machine learning-based non-destructive classificati...
The quality of the Serbian dry fermented sausage, Sremska, was evaluated without added nitrite and pasteurized post-ripening. As an extra safety measure to eliminate Salmonella, mild heat treatments (47 °C/6.5 h or 53 °C/22.1 min) were used....
Hypsizygus marmoreus is a representative edible mushroom with low-temperature fruiting after a long postripening (LFLP). Clarifying the mechanism of LFLP and applying a rigorous low-temperature-limited process will optimize the mushroom cultivation p...
Apple juice that is designated ‘Not from concentrated’ (NFC) is now increasingly popular with consumers due to its unique taste and rich nutritional value. However, layered precipitation and instability have emerged as serious technical problems that...
Helleborus thibetanus is an endemic species in China with important ornamental and medicinal value. However, the seeds have dormancy, and their germination percentage is low under natural conditions. This research was carried out to determine the see...
The role of melatonin during the growth and ripening of apple fruit was studied using local varieties. The evolution of the growth and ripening parameters, including fruit size and weight, firmness, color change, sugar content, and ethylene productio...
The cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a self-pollinating species whose fruit ripening is crucial for commercial quality, as many attributes are established during this stage. Fruits ripened on the plant usually have better quality than t...
Fruit ripening is a highly complicated process that is accompanied by the formation of fruit quality. In recent years, a series of studies have demonstrated post-transcriptional control play important roles in fruit ripening and fruit quality formati...
Passiflora cincinnata (Mast), native to the Brazilian semi-arid region, produces exotic fruits even under low water availability. However, its green coloration at ripening complicates optimal harvesting, impacting post-harvest fruit quality. Therefor...
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) methylation functions as a vital post-transcriptional and epigenetic modification in higher plants regulated by α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases (ALKBH). However, the role of ALKBH genes in oriental melon (Cucumis...
The tomato is a research model for fruit-ripening, however, its fruit-ripening mechanism still needs more extensive and in-depth exploration. Here, using TMT and LC-MS, the proteome and phosphoproteome of AC++ (wild type) and rin (ripening-inhibitor)...
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