#ripening — Public Fediverse posts

How #light affects citrus fruit #coloration and the timing of peel and flesh #ripening.

#chromoplasts #CcUNE10, #bHLH #transcription_factor

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-affects-citrus-fruit-flesh-ripening.html

Rethinking #ripening: #Ethylene's expanded role in strawberry #fruit #development and maturation.

#hormones #signalling

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-rethinking-ripening-ethylene-role-strawberry.html

Blossom-end rot causes black patches in fleshy fruits like #aubergine, tomato and #pepper 🍆 🍅 🫑

This paper looks at a #starch-deficient #tomato mutant which is particularly #resistant to this, with only minor effects on #fruit size and #ripening - wow!

https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad212

#TranscriptionalReprogramming #pyrophosphorylase #BlossomEndRot, #Carbohydrate #lipid #Solanum #fruit #development, #metabolism #stress