Given their attractive appearance and flavour, as well as high antioxidant content, Vaccinium
corymbosum L. fruits are greatly appreciated by consumers. These quality traits are primarily …

Background Ploidy manipulation is effective in seedless loquat breeding, in which flesh
color is a key agronomic and economic trait. Few techniques are currently available for …

Accumulation of carotenoids in peel and pulp of the yellow-fleshed loquat 'Zaozhong 6'(ZZ6)
and the white-fleshed loquat 'Baiyu'(BY) were tracked during different fruit development …

The newly released 'Snow White'(SW), a white-fleshed loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.)
cultivar, holds promise for commercial production. However, the specifics of the phenolic …

As a result of the high variability of fruit properties in the European plum Prunus domestica, a
histochemical analysis of fruits at different stages of development was performed to …

Abstract Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.) is a subtropical fruit. China and Spain
are the major producers of loquat. It is grown in a wide range of climatic conditions from …

Carotenoids are the principal pigments in the loquat. Although the metabolic pathway of
plant carotenoids has been extensively investigated, few studies have been explored the …

Abstract Oncidium 'Gower Ramsey'(Onc. GR) is a popular cut flower, but its colour is limited
to bright yellow. The β‐ring carotene hydroxylase (BCH 2) gene is involved in carotenoid …

Main conclusion Carotenoid accumulation and chromoplast development in orange were
perturbed by carotenoid inhibitors, and candidate genes were identified via transcriptomic …

Key message Comparative ultrastructural developmental time-course analysis has identified
discrete stages at which the fruit plastids undergo structural and consequently functional …