Stone cells negatively affect fruit quality because of their firm and lignified cell walls, so are
targets for reduction in pear breeding programmes. However, there is only limited …

Vitis vinifera (grapevine) is one of the most important fruit crops, both for fresh consumption
and wine and spirit production. The term terroir is frequently used in viticulture and the wine …

MYB transcription factor (TF) is one of the largest TF families and regulates defense
responses to various stresses, hormone signaling as well as many metabolic and …

As an economically important crop, apple is one of the most cultivated fruit trees in
temperate regions worldwide. Recently, a large number of high-quality transcriptomic and …

Representing large biological data as networks is becoming increasingly adopted for
predicting gene function while elucidating the multifaceted organization of life processes. In …

Transcriptomics has significantly grown as a functional genomics tool for understanding the
expression of biological systems. The generated transcriptomics data can be utilised to …

Transcriptomics and metabolomics are methodologies being increasingly chosen to perform
molecular studies in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.), focusing either on plant and fruit …

Grapevine fruit development is a dynamic process that can be divided into three stages:
formation (I), lag (II), and ripening (III), in which physiological and biochemical changes …

Background In wine grape production, management practices have been adopted to
optimize grape and wine quality attributes by producing, or screening for, berries of smaller …

Gene coexpression networks are a useful tool for summarizing transcriptomic data and
providing insight into patterns of gene regulation in a variety of species. Though there has …