Towards a virtual fruit focusing on quality: modelling features and potential uses

The fruit is a hierarchically organized organ composed of cells from different tissues. Its quality, defined by traits such as fruit size and composition, is the result of a complex chain of biological processes. These processes involve exchanges (transpiration, respiration, photosynthesis, phloem a...

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Published in:Journal of experimental botany 2007-01, Vol.58 (5), p.917-928
Main Authors: Génard, M, Bertin, N, Borel, C, Bussières, P, Gautier, H, Habib, R, Léchaudel, M, Lecomte, A, Lescourret, F, Lobit, P, Quilot, B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions
Biological and medical sciences
Botanics
Cell growth
Cellular differentiation
Cellular metabolism
Complexity
Computer Simulation
Economic plant physiology
Fructification, ripening. Postharvest physiology
fruit
Fruit - physiology
Fruits
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
Growth and development
hierarchy
integrative biology
Life Sciences
Modeling
Models, Biological
Opinion Paper
Phenotypic traits
Plant Proteins - genetics
Plant Proteins - metabolism
Plant tissues
Plants
quality
Sugar acids
Sugars
system
Vegetal Biology
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Summary:The fruit is a hierarchically organized organ composed of cells from different tissues. Its quality, defined by traits such as fruit size and composition, is the result of a complex chain of biological processes. These processes involve exchanges (transpiration, respiration, photosynthesis, phloem and xylem fluxes, and ethylene emission) between the fruit and its environment (atmosphere or plant), tissue differentiation, and cell functioning (division, endoreduplication, expansion, metabolic transformations, and vacuolar storage). In order to progress in our understanding of quality development, it is necessary to analyse the fruit as a system, in which processes interact. In this case, a process-based modelling approach is particularly powerful. Such a modelling approach is proposed to develop a future 'virtual fruit' model. The value of a virtual fruit for agronomists and geneticists is also discussed.
ISSN:0022-0957
1460-2431
DOI:10.1093/jxb/erl287