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Carotenoids and Tocopherol Profiling in Fleshy Fruits
Carotenoids and tocopherols are among the most powerful lipophilic antioxidants accumulated in fruit and vegetable crops. This chapter describes a...
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Alternative splicing during fruit development among fleshy fruits
BackgroundAlternative splicing (AS) is an important mechanism of posttranscriptional modification and dynamically regulates multiple physiological...
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Influence of secondary dispersal by ants on invasive processes of exotic species with fleshy fruits
Invasive alien plant species (IAPS) are severely changing ecosystems on earth. Studying the interactions that allow IAPS to establish and spread in...
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Arid Fruits
After independence, the focus of Indian agriculture was more toward food grain production to feed our citizens, and with the sincere efforts of...
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How do specialist and generalist seed predators affect the highly variable and synchronized seed dispersal of Photinia glabra (Rosaceae), a fleshy-fruited tree?
Fleshy fruits are used by various animals, including legitimate seed dispersers and fruit and seed predators. To clarify the overall effect of these...
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Transcription Factor RIPENING INHIBITOR and Its Homologs in Regulation of Fleshy Fruit Ripening of Various Plant Species
AbstractMADS-domain transcription factor RIPENING INHIBITOR (RIN) is the global regulator of tomato Solanum lycopersicum L. fruit ripening . RIN...
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Arid Fruits
After independence, the focus of Indian agriculture was more toward food grain production to feed our citizens, and with the sincere efforts of...
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Traditional and Underutilized Fruits and Vegetables for Attaining Zero Hunger
Himalayan fruits are one of the few untapped bioresources that require special attention to address several issues related to food insecurity,...
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Common seed dispersers contribute most to the persistence of a fleshy-fruited tree
Mutualistic interactions are by definition beneficial for each contributing partner. However, it is insufficiently understood how mutualistic...
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Fleshy or dry: transcriptome analyses reveal the genetic mechanisms underlying bract development in Ephedra
BackgroundGnetales have a key phylogenetic position in the evolution of seed plants. Among the Gnetales, there is an extraordinary morphological...
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Occurrence of Cherry Virus A (CVA) infecting stone fruits in Kashmir province of Northwestern Himalayan Region of India
Stone fruits such as apricot, cherry, peach, plum and nectarine are cultivated commercially worldwide as well as in India, in temperate to...
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Dynamics of the sucrose metabolism and related gene expression in tomato fruits under water deficit
The impact of water deficit on sucrose metabolism in sink organs like the fruit remains poorly known despite the need to improve fruit crops...
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Biodiversity of underutilized fruits of the Himalayas
Owing to the conducive agro-climatic conditions, the Himalayan region is home to a number of wild fruit species that are uncommon in other regions of...
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Uncovering the Potential for the Sustainable Commercialization of Non-Timber Forest Products: Palm Fruits in Pando, Bolivia
Palm fruits are important non-timber forest products for rural people's livelihoods in the Amazon region, as many are nutritious foods and have the...
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New Formulation for Organic Mineral Nutrition of Plums to Achieve Higher Yield and Better Chemical Composition of Leaves and Fruits
The impact of foliar fertilization on the yield and chemical composition of the ‘Stenlej’ plum cultivar grown in North Macedonia was studied with...
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Fruit scent as an indicator of ripeness status in ‘bat fruits’ to attract ‘fruit bats’: chemical basis of chiropterochory
In the tropics, animal-mediated seed dispersal is the most frequently occurring dispersal syndrome, which includes traits that aid in attracting both...
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Integrated metabolome and transcriptome analysis of differences in quality of ripe Lycium barbarum L. fruits harvested at different periods
BackgroundWolfberry is well-known for its high nutritional value and medicinal benefits. Due to the continuous ripening nature of Goji berries and...
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Bioactive constituents and health promoting compounds of underutilized fruits of the northern Himalayas of India: a review
Wild and underutilized plants bearing fruits widely grow throughout the northern Himalayas, including Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh,...
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The role of avian frugivores in the germination and dispersal of fleshy-fruited Ficus species in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Figs ( Ficus spp.) are a diverse taxon of woody plants that play keystone ecological roles. They provide nutritional and aseasonal fruit crops that...
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Anthocyanin Content in the Capsicum Species Fruits Correlates with Expression Levels of Flavonoid Pathway Structural and Regulatory Genes
AbstractIn fruits of cultivars of pepper species Capsicum annuum (Sirenevyi Cub), C. frutescens (Samotsvet) and C. chinense (Pimenta da Neyde),...
