Highlights•Upcycling is a creative response to extract additional value from what would
otherwise be wasted.•Consumers perceive upcycling ambiguously, especially because of …

Food plants play a crucial role in human survival, providing them essential nutrients.
However, traditional breeding methods have not been able to keep up with the demands of …

Softening is one of the crucial factors causing the deterioration of postharvest fruit quality. In
this study, the effects of konjac glucomannan/low-acyl gellan gum/microcapsule of thymol …

Plant cell walls are essential structures for plant growth and development as well as plant
adaptation to environmental stresses. Thus, plants have evolved signaling mechanisms to …

Highlights•Uncontrolled physiological processes may result in crop losses.•Shattering,
abscission, and reduced dormancy are responsible for losses in the field.•Overripening and …

During fruit ripening, polygalacturonases (PGs) are key contributors to the softening process
in many species. Apple is a crisp fruit that normally exhibits only minor changes to cell walls …

Pectate lyase plays an important role in fruit development and ripening. Although earlier
studies showed SlPL, a pectate lyase encoding gene, functions dominantly in tomato fruit …

The edible coating is proved to be a convenient approach for fruit preservation. Among
these published explorations, naturally sourced macromolecules and green crosslinking …

Plant rhamnogalacturonan lyases (RGLyases) cleave the backbone of rhamnogalacturonan
I (RGI), the “hairy” pectin and polymer of the disaccharide rhamnose (Rha)-galacturonic acid …

Persimmon fruit quickly softens after harvest, which limits its industrial value. The hormone
melatonin has been reported to delay fruit ripening and softening. However, the effect of …