The pivotal role of phytohormones during fruit development and ripening is considered
established knowledge in plant biology. Perhaps less well-known is the growing body of …

Imported from the Andean region to Europe in the 16th century, today tomato is widespread
throughout the world and represents the most economically important vegetable crop …

Plant hormones have been extensively studied for their roles in the regulation of various
aspects of plant development. However, in the last decade important new insights have …

Fruiting structures in the angiosperms range from completely dry to highly fleshy organs and
provide many of our major crop products, including grains. In the model plant Arabidopsis …

Plant genomes encode a complex and evolutionary diverse regulatory grammar that forms
the basis for most life on earth. A wealth of regulome and epigenome data have been …

The phenomenon of RNA interference (RNAi) which involves sequence-specific gene
regulation by small non-coding RNAs, ie, small interfering RNA (siRNA) and microRNA …

The dominance of flowering plants on earth is owed largely to the evolution of maternal
tissues such as fruit and seedcoat that protect and disseminate the seeds. The mechanism …

Seed and fruit set are established during and soon after fertilization and determine seed and
fruit number, their final size and, hence, yield potential. These processes are highly sensitive …

Originating in the Andes, the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) was imported to Europe in
the 16th century. At present, it is an important crop plant cultivated all over the world, and its …

Fragaria vesca, a diploid woodland strawberry with a small and sequenced genome, is an
excellent model for studying fruit development. The strawberry fruit is unique in that the …