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Fruit Ripening

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I. PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Chapter 1: Climacteric and Non-climacteric Ripening
Chapter 2: Fruit Ripening: Primary Metabolism
Chapter 3: Cellular, Metabolic and Molecular Aspects Of Chromoplast Differentiation In Ripening Fruit

Chapter 4: Cell-wall Metabolism and Softening during Ripening

Chapter 5: Aroma Volatiles
Chapter 6: Making the Surface of Fleshy Fruit: Biosynthesis, Assembly and Role of the Cuticular Layer

PART II. FRUIT NUTRITIONAL QUALITY
Chapter 7: Antioxidants and Bioactive Compounds in Fruits
Chapter 8: Vitamins in Fleshy Fruits
Chapter 9: Polyphenols

PART III. SIGNALING AND HORMONAL CONTROL OF FRUIT RIPENING
Chapter 10; Ethylene Biosynthesis

Chapter 11: Ethylene Perception and Signalling in Ripening Fruit

Chapter 12: Other Hormonal Signals during Ripening

PART IV. GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC CONTROL OF FRUIT RIPENING
Chapter 13: Genetic Diversity of Tropical Fruit

Chapter 14: Natural Diversity and Genetic Control of
Fruit Sensory Quality

Chapter 15: Ripening Mutants
Chapter 16: Biotechnology of Fruit Quality

Chapter 17: Insights into Plant Epigenome Dynamics

Chapter 18: Functional Genomics for the Study of
Fruit Ripening and Quality: Towards an Integrative
Approach