Fruit ripening is an important aspect of fruit production. The timing of it affects supply chains and buying behaviour, and for consumers ripeness not only affects perceptions of health but has nutritional effects too. Ripeness is closely related to spoilage which has a major financial impact on agricultural industries. Currently there are fast moving developments in knowledge of the factors affecting fruit ripeness, and this up-to-date monograph seeks to draw together the disparate research in this area. The aim of the book is to produce a comprehensive account covering almost every area related to fruit ripening including the latest molecular mechanisms regulating fruit ripening, its impact on human nutrition and emerging research and technologies.

Fruit ripeness is closely related to spoilage, which has a major financial impact on agricultural industries. Currently there are fast moving developments in knowledge of the factors affecting fruit ripeness, and this up-to-date monograph draws together disparate research in this area. The book provides a comprehensive account covering almost every area related to fruit ripening, including molecular mechanisms regulating fruit ripening, its impact on human nutrition and emerging research and technologies.

About the Author
Pravendra Nath is Deputy Director & Head of Plant Gene Expression Laboratory, National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, India Mondher Bouzayen is Head on INRA/INPT joint Laboratory - Genomics and Biotechnology of Fruit,Insitut National Polytechnique, ENSA Toulouse, France Auter K Mattoo is a Research scientist, The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre, Maryland, USA Jean Claude Pech is Professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, Castanet Toloson, France


Book Information
ISBN 9781845939625
Author Hiroshi Ezura
Format Hardback
Page Count 336
Imprint CABI Publishing
Publisher CABI Publishing
Weight(grams) 900g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 172mm * 23mm