Fruit ripening is an important aspect of fruit production. The timing of it affects supply chains and buying behaviour, and for consumers ripeness not only affects perceptions of health but has nutritional effects too. Ripeness is closely related to spoilage which has a major financial impact on agricultural industries. Currently there are fast moving developments in knowledge of the factors affecting fruit ripeness, and this up-to-date monograph seeks to draw together the disparate research in this area. The aim of the book is to produce a comprehensive account covering almost every area related to fruit ripening including the latest molecular mechanisms regulating fruit ripening, its impact on human nutrition and emerging research and technologies.
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Fruit ripeness is closely related to spoilage, which has a major financial impact on agricultural industries. Currently there are fast moving developments in knowledge of the factors affecting fruit ripeness, and this up-to-date monograph draws together disparate research in this area. The book provides a comprehensive account covering almost every area related to fruit ripening, including molecular mechanisms regulating fruit ripening, its impact on human nutrition and emerging research and technologies.
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| Preface |
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PART I PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM |
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1 Climacteric and Non-climacteric Ripening |
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2 Fruit Ripening: Primary Metabolism |
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15 | (13) |
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3 Cellular, Metabolic and Molecular Aspects of Chromoplast Differentiation in Ripening Fruit |
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28 | (20) |
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4 Cell-wall Metabolism and Softening during Ripening |
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48 | (15) |
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63 | (18) |
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6 Making the Surface of Fleshy Fruit: Biosynthesis, Assembly and Role of the Cuticular Layer |
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81 | (18) |
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PART II FRUIT NUTRITIONAL QUALITY |
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7 Antioxidants and Bioactive Compounds in Fruits |
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99 | (28) |
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8 Vitamins in Fleshy Fruits |
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127 | (24) |
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151 | (27) |
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PART III SIGNALLING AND HORMONAL CONTROL OF FRUIT RIPENING |
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178 | (15) |
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11 Ethylene Perception and Signalling in Ripening Fruit |
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193 | (9) |
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12 Other Hormonal Signals during Ripening |
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202 | (15) |
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PART IV GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC CONTROL OF FRUIT RIPENING |
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13 Genetic Diversity of Tropical Fruit |
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217 | (11) |
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14 Natural Diversity and Genetic Control of Fruit Sensory Quality |
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228 | (18) |
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246 | (13) |
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16 Biotechnology of Fruit Quality |
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259 | (32) |
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17 Insights into Plant Epigenome Dynamics |
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291 | (9) |
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18 Functional Genomics for the Study of Fruit Ripening and Quality: Towards an Integrative Approach |
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300 | (15) |
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Pravendra Nath is Deputy Director & Head of Plant Gene Expression Laboratory, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India Mondher Bouzayen is Head on INRA/INPT joint Laboratory - Genomics and Biotechnology of Fruit,Insitut National Polytechnique, ENSA Toulouse, France Auter K Mattoo is a Research scientist, The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre, Maryland, USA Jean Claude Pech is Professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, Castanet Toloson, France
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