Highlights•Fruit quality includes aspects of color, nutrition, flavor, texture, and shelf
life.•Improving fruit quality can reduce food waste and increase nutritious food access.•Some …

Fleshy fruits are the most demanded fruits because of their organoleptic qualities and
nutritional values. The genus Prunus is a rich source of diversified stone/drupe fruits such as …

Although some lineages of animals and plants have made impressive adaptive radiations
when provided with ecological opportunity, the propensities to radiate vary profoundly …

Drought drastically restricts wheat production, so to dissect allelic variations of drought
tolerant genes without imposing trade-offs between tolerance and yield is essential to cope …

Although maturity date (MD) is an essential factor affecting fresh fruit marketing and has a
pleiotropic effect on fruit taste qualities, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear …

Background Plant metabolites reshaped by nature and human beings are crucial for both
their lives and human health. However, which metabolites respond most strongly to …

Rice bean (Vigna umbellata) is an underexploited domesticated legume crop consumed for
dietary protein in Asia, yet little is known about the genetic diversity of this species. Here, we …

Plants supply both food and medicinal compounds, which are ascribed to diverse
metabolites produced by plants. However, studies on domestication‐driven changes in the …

Citrate is a common primary metabolite which often characterizes fruit flavour. The key
regulators of citrate accumulation in fruit and vegetables are poorly understood. We …

Bioactive compounds play an increasingly prominent role in breeding functional and
nutritive fruit crops such as citrus. However, the genomic and metabolic bases for the …