Fruit development and ripening.
Fruit development and ripening.
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DOI:
10.1093/jxb/eru307
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发表时间:
2014-08
影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
Granell A
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文献类型:
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作者:
Seymour GB;Granell A
It has been 12 years since publication of the last Journal of Experimental Botany Special Issue on Fruit Development and Ripening (Vol. 53, No 377, October 2002). At that time the biosynthesis and mode of action of ethylene in fruit ripening had already been established, and advances in genetics were revealing links between genes and phenotypes, especially noteworthy was the map-based cloning of genes underlying tomato non-ripening loci such as ripening inhibitor (rin). Since then there have been substantial advances in our understanding of ripening in tomato and many other dry and fleshy fruits. This has been accelerated by the delivery of genome sequences for a wide range of plants including fleshy fruit bearing species and the development of systems biology approaches to understanding regulatory networks. The first paper in the 2002 issue was a seminal work by Sandy Knapp focused on fruit diversity in the Solanaceae and highlighting the phylogenetic relationships between dry and fleshy fruit forms (Knapp, 2002). The current volume describes the progress that has been made in understanding the mechanistic basis of fruit development and ripening and the conservation of regulatory networks controlling these processes, in both dry and fleshy forms across a wide range of taxa. Systems biology approaches have begun to reveal the complexity of the ripening process, while genome sequences have facilitated the identification of genes underlying quantitative trait loci (QTL) and the importance of epigenetics is beginning to become apparent. In the first paper in this special issue, Sofia Kourmpetli and Sinéad Drea from the University of Leicester in the UK review the regulatory networks involved in the development and maturation of two, at first sight, very different dry fruits, the poppy capsule and the cereal grain. They highlight the importance of MADS-box genes including FRUITFULL (FUL) and SHATTERPROOF (SHP), and set these events in the context of a phylogenetic framework. Cristina Ferrándiz and Chloé Fourquin from Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas in Valencia, Spain, then review the role of FUL and SHP in Arabidopsis and provide a comprehensive discussion of their role in many other species including Brassicas, legumes and also in fleshy fruits (Ferrándiz and Fourquin, 2014). Dehiscence in dry fruits and ripening, and even the extent of lignification in fleshy fruits, is linked to the complex relationship between FUL and SHP expression, and their review concludes that there are conserved roles of FUL and SHP in late fruit development both in fleshy and dry fruits. These ideas were hinted at in the 2002 Special Issue and strong supporting evidence is now presented consistent with dehiscence and ripening sharing a common origin and being parallel, rather than completely different processes. María Dolores Gómez and colleagues, also from Valencia, explore and develop for us further ideas about the similarities and differences between the mechanistic basis of ‘ripening’and ‘over-ripening’in dry and fleshy fruits including comparing the transcriptomes of senescent and ripening Arabidopsis siliques and tomato berries (Gómez et al., 2014). Molecular networks controlling the ripening of fleshy fruits are also the focus of reviews by scientists from a range of European and South American laboratories (Karlova et al., 2014; Kuhn et al., 2014). Karlova and colleagues present the stateof-the-art for the model fleshy fruit, tomato, and bring to our attention recent discoveries relating to the role of the epigenome in controlling the ripening process. Tomato is a climacteric fruit where ripening is under the control of ethylene …
影响因子:
6.9
作者:
Dai ZW;Meddar M;Renaud C;Merlin I;Hilbert G;Delrot S;Gomès E
通讯作者:
Gomès E
影响因子:
6.9
作者:
Fu X;Feng C;Wang C;Yin X;Lu P;Grierson D;Xu C;Chen K
通讯作者:
Chen K