Fruit ripening is a complex and highly regulated process where tomato and strawberry have
been the model species classically used for studying climacteric and non-climacteric fleshy …

Melon (Cucumis melo L.) a member of family Cucurbitaceae is extensively cultivated for its
fleshy fruits. Dependent upon the agroclimatic zones of cultivation along with the local …

Background Melon shows a broad diversity in fruit morphology and quality, which is still
underexploited in breeding programs. The knowledge of the genetic basis of fruit quality …

Domestication and improvement are two important stages in crop evolution. Melon (Cucumis
melo L.) is an important vegetable crop with wide phenotypic diversity in many horticultural …

Melon is an important horticultural crop worldwide. The high diversity of melon makes it a
model plant for various different properties. Some quantitative trait loci or candidates have …

A non-protein amino acid, citrulline, is a compatible solute involved in the maintenance of
cellular osmolarity during abiotic stresses. Despite its significance, a coherent model …

Citrulline was chemically isolated more than 100 years ago and is ubiquitous in animals,
plants, bacteria, and fungi. Most of the research on plant citrulline metabolism and transport …

Earliness and ripening behavior are important attributes of fruits on and off the vine, and
affect quality and preference of both growers and consumers. Fruit ripening is a complex …

In the frame of modern agriculture facing the predicted increase of population and general
environmental changes, the securement of high quality food remains a major challenge to …

Background Earlier next-generation sequencing technologies are being vastly used to
explore, administer, and investigate the gene space with accurate profiling of nucleotide …