Publications by authors named "Paul Pidakala"
Article Synopsis
- The ERF/AP2 transcription factors play a crucial role in regulating plant responses to various developmental and environmental factors, including hormonal responses and temperature changes.
- In kiwifruit, ripening is unique as it largely occurs independently of ethylene, with temperature significantly influencing the process and promoting soluble sugar accumulation.
- A study identified numerous ERF-like genes and their expression responses to maturation, ethylene, and cold treatment, revealing evolutionary adaptations in specific genes related to cold and ethylene responses in kiwifruit.
In this study, it is shown that anti-sense suppression of Malus domestica 1-AMINO-CYCLOPROPANE-CARBOXYLASE OXIDASE (MdACO1) resulted in fruit with an ethylene production sufficiently low to be able to assess ripening in the absence of ethylene. Exposure of these fruit to different concentrations of exogenous ethylene showed that flesh softening, volatile biosynthesis, and starch degradation, had differing ethylene sensitivity and dependency. Early ripening events such as the conversion of starch to sugars showed a low dependency for ethylene, but a high sensitivity to low concentrations of ethylene (0.
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