Ann. bot.

Background One of the key goals of fruit biology is to understand the factors that influence fruit growth and quality, ultimately with a view to manipulating them for improvement of fruit traits. Scope Primary metabolism, which is not only essential for growth but is also a major component of fruit quality, is an obvious target for improvement. However, metabolism is a moving target that undergoes marked changes throughout fruit growth and ripening. Conclusions Agricultural practice and breeding have successfully improved fruit metabolic traits, but both face the complexity of the interplay between development, metabolism and the environment. Thus, more fundamental knowledge is needed to identify further strategies for the manipulation of fruit metabolism. Nearly two decades of post-genomics approaches involving transcriptomics, proteomics and/or metabolomics have generated a lot of information about the behaviour of fruit metabolic networks. Today, the emergence of modelling tools is providing the opportunity to turn this information into a mechanistic understanding of fruits, and ultimately to design better fruits. Since high-quality data are a key requirement in modelling, a range of must-have parameters and variables is proposed.< Réduire

Mots clés

Structure primaire

Arboriculture fruitière

Modélisation

Qualité du fruit

Croissance du fruit

Maturation du fruit

Contrainte stœchiométrique

Diversité des pratiques agricoles

Mots clés en anglais

Kinetic Modelling

Metabolism

Agricultural Practice

Fruits

Post-Genomics

Stoichiometric Modelling

Process-Based Modelling

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcy057

Project ANR

Modélisation intégrative du fruit pour un système de sélection unifié - ANR-15-CE20-0009

Origine

Importé de hal

Unités de recherche

Ecophysiologie et Génomique Fonctionnelle de la Vigne (EGFV) - UMR 1287