Although a large component of tomato fruit taste is sugars, the choice of tomato cultivar and
the postharvest practices implemented by industry are designed to reduce crop loss and …

Tomato quality is a multi-faceted trait, involving many processes at the plant and fruit level,
which depend on interactions between cultural practices, genetic and environmental factors …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an established model to study fleshy fruit development
and ripening. Tomato ripening is regulated independently and cooperatively by ethylene …

To evaluate the genotypic variation of salt stress response in tomato, physiological analyses
and a proteomic approach have been conducted in parallel on four contrasting tomato …

Fruit ripening is a developmental complex process which occurs in higher plants and
involves a number of stages displayed from immature to mature fruits that depend on the …

Banana fruit is prone to chilling injury (CI) during cold storage, resulting in quality
deterioration and commodity reduction. The hot water treatment (HWT), dipping banana fruit …

Fresh fruits and vegetables have a short postharvest life and are prone to postharvest losses
due to mechanical injury, physiological causes and decay. Low temperature storage (LTS) is …

In natural conditions, culms of developing Moso bamboo, Phyllostachys heterocycla var.
pubescens, reach their final height of more than ten meters within a short period of two to …

Background Fluctuations in temperature occur naturally during plant growth and
reproduction. However, in the hot summers this variation may become stressful and …

Tomatoes, as originally tropical fruits, cannot easily be stored at low temperatures, due to the
risk of chilling injury (CI). To develop an effective technique to reduce CI, the effects of …