Fruiting structures in the angiosperms range from completely dry to highly fleshy organs and
provide many of our major crop products, including grains. In the model plant Arabidopsis …

Members of the MADS-box transcription factor family play essential roles in almost every
developmental process in plants. Many MADS-box genes have conserved functions across …

Fruit development and ripening are unique to plants and represent an important component
of human and animal diets. Recent discoveries have shed light on the molecular basis of …

The FT gene integrates several external and endogenous cues controlling flowering,
including information on day length. A complex of the mobile FT protein and the bZIP …

Fleshy fruits have evolved to be attractive to frugivores in order to enhance seed dispersal,
and have become an indispensable part of the human diet. Here we review the recent …

Photoperiod responsiveness is a key factor limiting the geographic distribution of cultivated
soybean and its wild ancestor. In particular, the genetic basis of the adaptation in wild …

▪ 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 …

A critical review of characters used in the systematics of the Brassicaceae is given, and
aspects of the origin, classification, and generic delimitation of the family discussed …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) contains two close homologs of the Arabidopsis thaliana
MADS domain transcription factor FRUITFULL (FUL), FUL1 (previously called TDR4) and …

The maturation and ripening of fleshy fruits is a developmental program that synchronizes
seed maturation with metabolism, rendering fruit tissues desirable to seed dispersing …