Conventional and Biotechnological Approaches for Enhancing Shelf-life of Horticultural Crops

Background: Due to its highly perishable nature and less shelf life, postharvest losses of fruits result in a high gap between production availability. Various plant traits which need be genetically modified for higher life include lowered respiration ethylene production, sensitivity ethylene, lowering ripening rates, reduced browning, decreased chilling increased disease resistance. Methods: The importance understanding the biochemical process softening use such information retarding has been demonstrated this paper. Result: After reviewing development made extending fruits, it becomes evident that although success field inadequate, there are possibilities fruit breeders will succeed near future evolving superior cultivars with longer by adopting conventional biotechnological approaches.