Genetic Research Progress of Fruit Ripening and Quality Control

Abstract

Fruit ripening involves many biochemical processes, mainly including aroma, sugar production, fruit softening and so on, which is closely related to a series of metabolic pathways in the process of fruit ripening. Therefore, it is of great significance for fruit quality improvement to study and understand the genetic mechanism of fruit ripening and quality regulation. Combined with the genetic studies of fruit ripening and quality improvement in recent years, this study summarized metabolic pathways in genetic analysis of fruit ripening, genetic law of fruit quality improvement, and quality QTL, aiming to provide technical reference for quality breeding of fruit plants.

Roles of endophytic fungi in medicinal plant abiotic stress response and TCM quality development

“…In addition, endophytic fungi can function as osmoprotectants and promote host plant metabolite production ( Xu et al, 2022 ), such as total soluble sugars ( Ismail et al, 2018 ), soluble proteins ( Song, Liu, Cai, Sun, & Dai, 2011 ), flavonoids ( Bibi et al, 2019 ), and phenols ( Sharma, Kharkwal, Abdin, & Varma, 2016 ). Interestingly, these compounds may play a greater role in medicinal plants than in other plants because of the well-known pharmacological activity determined by active compounds.…”

“…Thus, we focused on whether endophytic fungi can improve host medicinal plant resistance to abiotic stress by regulating metabolites. Some metabolites of medicinal plants improve plant resistance to abiotic stress ( Wang et al, 2018 , Xu et al, 2022 ); however, the role of endophytic fungi in this process has not been clarified.…”