Meet Fabrizio Costa, academic at the University of Trento, in Italy, and one of our handling editors. His research focuses on #fruit aging, plant #propagation, #gene mapping, post-harvest biology, #ethylene, and transcriptomics. 🍎🌿

#Botany #PlantGenetics #UniversityofTrento #Research #FruitRipening #PostHarvest #Ethylene #Transcriptomics #Italy

🍓🥭🍇These findings provide the first direct evidence that RGL, previously known from gene expression and in-vitro studies, actively contributes to fruit softening by cleaving pectin in the cell walls of ripe fruits. (7/7)

👉 https://botany.fyi/aS8CnE

#FruitRipening #Enzymes

Fruit softening: evidence for rhamnogalacturonan lyase action in vivo in ripe fruit cell walls

AbstractBackground and Aims. The softening of ripening fruit involves partial depolymerization of cell-wall pectin by three types of reaction: enzymic hydrolysi

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