It has been 12 years since publication of the last Journal of Experimental Botany Special
Issue on Fruit Development and Ripening (Vol. 53, No 377, October 2002). At that time the …

Abstract Development, maturation and ripening of fruits has received considerable
experimental attention, primarily due to the uniqueness of such processes to plant species …

This article provides an overview of the Journal of Experimental Botany Special Issue on
Fruit Development and Ripening. It reports that significant progress is being made in …

▪ Abstract The development and maturation of fruits has received considerable scientific
scrutiny because of both the uniqueness of such processes to the biology of plants and the …

Fruit ripening is a complex process undergone by mature fruits to achieve successful seed
11 dispersal. After ripening initiation, fruits change their color, their flesh becomes soft, and …

Fruit ripening is a unique aspect of plant development with direct implications for a large
component of the food supply and related areas of human health and nutrition. Recent …

An intrinsic and genetically determined ripening program of tomato fruits often depends
upon the appropriate activation of tissue-and stage-specific transcription factors in space …

Fruit ripening is a complex and highly coordinated developmental process involving the
expression of many ripening-related genes under the control of a network of signalling …

Purpose of the review: Ripening in climacteric fruit is controlled at many levels and by
branches of several complex, interacting pathways. Regulatory genes and their protein …

Fruits come in a vast variety of forms with both dry and fleshy types being essential
components of the human diet. Elegant studies on the dry fruits of Arabidopsis have …