Weeping forsythia is a wide-spread shrub in China with important ornamental, medicinal and ecological values. It is widely distributed in China's warm temperate zone. In plants, WRKY transcription factors play important regulatory roles in seed germination, flower development, fruit ripening and...

Abiotic stress is the focus of research on passion fruit characters because of its damage to the industry. Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) is one of the Transcription factors (TFs) which can act in an anti-abiotic stress role through diverse biological processes. However, no systemic analysis of the...

Tomato is one of the most important vegetable crops in the world and is a model plant used to study the ripening of climacteric fleshy fruit. During the ripening process of tomato fruit, flavor and aroma metabolites, color, texture and plant hormones undergo significant changes. However, low...

Halophytic plant Lycium ruthenicum is rich with anthocyanin in fruit, and has thus attracted considerable attention due to its health-promoting effects. However, the effect of salt stress on fruit quality remains unknown. In this study, RNA-seq, LC-MS/MS coupling with TMT labeling, and GC-MS...

Recent studies have shown that DNA methylation is critical for fruit ripening and leaf senescence, but its effect on flowering is unclear. This study investigated the dynamic changes in DNA methylation and its regulatory role on flower opening and senescence of Osmanthus fragrans 'Liuyejingui' by...

Fruit ripening and softening is a complex physiological process that is governed by the expression of a wide range of genes, and histone modification is a critical mechanism for precise gene expression. Although previous studies have indicated that NAC transcription factor (TF) and histone...

Walnut (Juglans regia L.) is an important woody oilseed tree species due to its commercial value. However, the regulation mechanism of walnut oil accumulation is still poorly understood, which restricted the breeding and genetic improvement of high-quality oil-bearing walnuts. In order to explore...

Background: The desert shrub Nitraria tangutorum Bobr. is important for its resistance to salt and alkali in Northwest China. It is an ecologically important species in this region and provides edible and medicinal berries. This study showed a mutant of N. tangutorum (named Jincan, JC) that has a...

Histone methylation plays important roles in plant development. However, the role of histone methylation in fruit ripening remains unclear. Here, a total of 16 Jumonji domain-containing proteins (JMJs) were identified from banana genome. During fruit ripening, expression of MaJMJ15 was...

Fruit ripening is the last phase of fruit growth and development. The initiation and progression of fruit ripening are highly modulated by a plethora of key genes, such as transcription factor (TF) genes. The WRKY gene family is a large group of TFs that play important roles in various cellular...