Articles
Apple firmness relies on cell wall architecture
Article number
1353_3
Pages
19 – 28
Language
English
Abstract
Apple, one of the major fleshy fruit foods worldwide, offers various texture properties for consumers and food processors.
Knowledge about the underlying structural determinants of its texture is required to improve pertinent development of cultivars, production practices, postharvest management and processing in order to fit with new environmental and societal constraints and thus, making full use of productions with reduced waste.
Cell wall polysaccharides and water compartmentalization are known key contributors of fruit texture.
In cell wall, pectin has been highlighted as a major determinant of apple firmness in relation with water compartmentalization and cell wall organization.
Cell wall remodeling occurring all along fruit development, the synthesis and metabolism of the glucomannan family of hemicelluloses during the early cell wall set-up are presented as one possible decisive step of the ripe fruit texture.
New means of assessing cell wall architecture will be discussed along with apple texture variability.
Knowledge about the underlying structural determinants of its texture is required to improve pertinent development of cultivars, production practices, postharvest management and processing in order to fit with new environmental and societal constraints and thus, making full use of productions with reduced waste.
Cell wall polysaccharides and water compartmentalization are known key contributors of fruit texture.
In cell wall, pectin has been highlighted as a major determinant of apple firmness in relation with water compartmentalization and cell wall organization.
Cell wall remodeling occurring all along fruit development, the synthesis and metabolism of the glucomannan family of hemicelluloses during the early cell wall set-up are presented as one possible decisive step of the ripe fruit texture.
New means of assessing cell wall architecture will be discussed along with apple texture variability.
Authors
M. Lahaye, M. Delaire, M. Orsel, X. Falourd, L. Foucat, S. Le Gall, R. Bauduin
Keywords
fruit quality, cell wall, NMR spectroscopy, viscoelastic mechanical properties, pectin, hemicellulose
Groups involved
- Division Temperate Tree Fruits
- Division Temperate Tree Nuts
- Division Vegetables, Roots and Tubers
- Division Plant-Environment Interactions in Field Systems
- Division Horticulture for Human Health
- Division Postharvest and Quality Assurance
- Division Sustaining Horticulture in a Changing World
- Division Tropical and Subtropical Fruit and Nuts
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