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- Title
Physiology and Application of Gibberellins in Postharvest Horticultural Crops.
- Authors
Zhang, Jingyu; Cao, Yuhao; Tang, Jia; He, Xujie; Li, Ming; Li, Chen; Ren, Xiaolin; Ding, Yuduan
- Abstract
Gibberellins (GAs) are plant hormones indispensable in regulating the growth and development of fruits. Recent studies have shown that GAs play important roles in delaying horticultural crop ripening and senescence, enhancing the internal and external quality of horticultural crops and resistance to stress and disease. We reviewed the role of GAs in the postharvest physiology of fruits in recent years. GAs are closely related to their ability to retard fruit senescence. GAs could effectively improve fruit storage quality and significantly increase flesh hardness, reduce respiration intensity, inhibit the release of endogenous ethylene, and effectively inhibit fruit softening and ripening. It can also improve the intrinsic and extrinsic quality of fruit storage by improving fruit shape, regulating color, delaying the reduction of soluble solids, promoting sugar accumulation, and delaying vitamin loss. GAs also play a role in postharvest biotic and abiotic stress resistance. The GA treatment effectively reduces the cold damage index, reduces the production and accumulation of superoxide anion(O2−), improves the antioxidant capacity of fruits, and maintains the integrity of cell membranes during low-temperature storage. Moreover, GAs could effectively control some postharvest fruit diseases. In conclusion, GAs play an important role in the physiological regulation of postharvest fruits and have important application prospects in postharvest fruits.
- Subjects
GIBBERELLINS; DISEASE resistance of plants; RIPENING of crops; PHYSIOLOGY; FRUIT ripening; HORTICULTURAL crops; PLANT hormones
- Publication
Horticulturae, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 6, p625
- ISSN
2311-7524
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/horticulturae9060625