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 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 …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an established model to study fleshy fruit development
and ripening. Tomato ripening is regulated independently and cooperatively by ethylene …

Fruit ripening represents a complex system of genetic and hormonal regulation of eukaryotic
development unique to plants. We are using tomato ripening mutants as tools to elucidate …

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

The making of a fruit is a developmental process unique to plants. It requires a complex
network of interacting genes and signaling pathways. In fleshy fruit, it involves three distinct …

Publisher Summary Fruits developed from one flower are divisible into two broad categories
referred to as simple or aggregate, whereas the inflorescence-derived fruit are considered …

Tomato ripening is a highly coordinated developmental process that coincides with seed
maturation. Regulated expression of thousands of genes controls fruit softening as well as …

The involvement of ethylene in fruit ripening is well documented, though knowledge
regarding the crosstalk between ethylene and other hormones in ripening is lacking. We …