Excessive softening is the main factor limiting fruit shelf life and storage. Transgenic plants
modified in the expression of cell wall modifying proteins have been used to investigate the …

Pectin is a major component of primary cell walls of all land plants and encompasses a
range of galacturonic acid-rich polysaccharides. Three major pectic polysaccharides …

Elucidating the mechanisms involved in ripening of climacteric fruit and the role that
ethylene plays in the process are key to understanding fruit production and quality. In this …

Fruits constitute a commercially important and nutritionally indispensable food commodity.
Being a part of a balanced diet, fruits play a vital role in human nutrition by supplying the …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a globally important crop with an economic value in the
tens of billions of dollars, and a significant supplier of essential vitamins, minerals, and …

Textural changes that lead to softening of fruits are accompanied by loss of neutral sugars,
solubilisation and depolymerisation of the polysaccharides of the cell wall, and …

Texture of fresh fruit Page 136 Texture of Fresh Fruit F. Roger Harker, Robert J. Redgwell, Ian
C. Hallett, and Shona H. Murray The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand …

The role of the ripening-specific expansin Exp1 protein in fruit softening and cell wall
metabolism was investigated by suppression and overexpression of Exp1 in transgenic …

To develop antibody probes for the neutral side chains of pectins, antisera were generated
to a pectic galactan isolated from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) pericarp cell walls and …

The softening of fleshy fruits, such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), during ripening is
generally reported to result principally from disassembly of the primary cell wall and middle …