The last decade has been characterized by a decrease in peach (Prunus persica) fruit
consumption in many countries, foremost due to unsatisfactory quality. The sugar content is …

Breeding crops for improved flavor is challenging due to the high cost of sensory evaluation
and the difficulty of connecting sensory experience to chemical composition. The main goal …

Background Human selection has a long history of transforming crop genomes. Peach
(Prunus persica) has undergone more than 5000 years of domestication that led to …

Qualitative traits and chemical properties of 32 peach cultivars (yellow flesh and white flesh
fruits) and 52 nectarine cultivars (yellow flesh and white flesh fruits) of different pomological …

Sugar content is related to fruit sweetness, and the complex mechanisms underlying fruit
sugar accumulation still remain elusive. Here, we report a peach PpTST1 gene encoding …

BACKGROUND The suitability of commercial peaches for minimal processing (MP) is
limited, mainly due to shortened shelf‐life. Gamma irradiation has emerged in MP fruits as a …

Goji berries are a small-fruited shrub with industrial importance whose fruit considered
beneficial in both fresh and dried forms. Current germplasms of goji berries include small …

Thirteen Prunus rootstocks with different genetic background [five peach-almond hybrids:
Adafuel, Adarcias, GF 677, PADAC 9902-01 and Rootpac 70; one P. persica x P. davidiana …

BACKGROUND: The poor eating quality of fresh peaches transported to far markets is one
of the main problems that fresh‐fruit exporting countries have to face. This research is …

In this work, both analytical and sensory determinations were carried out to evaluate the
quality of yellow ('Summerset ','Tardiva 2000 ','Fairtime','Guglielmina') and white flesh …