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Genetic regulation and the impact of omics in fruit ripening

2015; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

1836-3644

Railson Schreinert dos Santos, Luis Willian Pacheco Arge, Savana Irribarem Costa, Natã Dienes Machado, Paulo Mello-Farias, César Valmor Rombaldi, Antônio Costa de Oliveira,

Botanical Research and Applications

Fruits are highly consumed products, especially due to their colorful appearance, sweet taste and healthy appeal. Some of these qualitative aspects such as size, color, acidity, flavor, sweetness and juiciness, which have great influence upon consumer, are dependent of specific physiological processes that occur during ripening. After a certain point, new physiological changes take place, which result in unsuitable characteristics for consumption and large losses for both farmers and consumers, the understanding of ripening regulation is of crucial economic importance. The new technologies that are currently becoming available are contributing tremendously for a better understanding of fruit growth and ripening. In this report, we focus on discussing the knowledge obtained mainly through the study of ripening mutants. We also point some future directions taking into account the impact of new technologies on the understanding of postharvest biology, also showing that phylogenetic analysis of ripening related loci from different species can reveal interesting differences between climacteric and non-climacteric fruits, helping to understand and to take control over ripening regulation.