This study reports the first observations indicating the spatiotemporal relationships among genetic and physiological aspects of ripening in the berry of Vitis vinifera. At the onset of ripening in the red flesh variety Alicante Bouschet, colour development began in the flesh at the stylar end of the fruit and progressed toward the pedicel end flesh and into the skin. Tissue solute potential an...

Cucumber is an agriculturally and economically important vegetable crop worldwide. Fruit flesh thickness is an important trait for cucumber and also a central determinant of yield, yet little is known about the underlying mechanism of this trait. In this study, bulked segregant analysis (BSA) combined with specific length amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) was applied to finely map the ge...

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (CFP) is a tropical disease caused by the consumption of fish contaminated with ciguatoxins (CTXs). Currently, the only feasible prevention methods for CFP are to avoid the consumption of fish of certain species from some regions, avoid larger fish of certain species, or avoid all fish caught from specific regions. Here, we quantified levels of P-CTX-1B in Spanish Macke...

UNLABELLED Potatoes accumulate toxic steroidal compounds that could be harmful for humans if consumed in high quantities and must be controlled. In this study, we were interested in assessing the levels and variation of glycoalkaloid content in 60 varieties of potato planted in 2 trial sites over 2 y. Total glycoalkaloid levels ranged from 4 to 957 mg/kg of dry weight in the flesh and from 150 ...

Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] flesh color is controlled by several genes to produce red, orange, salmon yellow, canary yellow, or white. The objective of these experiments was to study the interaction of three independently reported gene loci, each having two or three alleles: C (canary yellow) versus c (red), y (salmon yellow) versus Y (red) versus y8 (orange), and i ...

This study aimed to evaluate the concentrations of main macroelements in leaves and fruit grown following organic conventional practices, relate them physico-chemical parameters during commercial harvests. Three samplings were carried out maturation. Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) determined two flesh areas: basal apical. Weight, color, firmness, solub...

Yan73, a teinturier (dyer) grape variety in China, is one of the few Vitis vinifera cultivars with red-coloured berry flesh. To examine the tissue-specific expression of genes associated with berry colour in Yan73, we analysed the differential accumulation of anthocyanins in the skin and flesh tissues of two red-skinned grape varieties with either red (Yan73) or white flesh (Muscat Hamburg) bas...

Editor-Pristane (2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane) is a branched chain hydrocarbon which is thought to be derived from the phytyl moiety of chlorophyll. This compound has been associated with several biological effects. Pristane can induce plasmacytomas,l and together with some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, act as promoters in the development of Blymphoid malignancies and skin tumours in an...

Editor-Pristane (2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane) is a branched chain hydrocarbon which is thought to be derived from the phytyl moiety of chlorophyll. This compound has been associated with several biological effects. Pristane can induce plasmacytomas,l and together with some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, act as promoters in the development of Blymphoid malignancies and skin tumours in an...