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Ripening of Tomato Fruit and Susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea

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Botrytis – the Fungus, the Pathogen and its Management in Agricultural Systems

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Botrytis cinerea causes gray mold decay in the ripe fruit of many plant species leading to significant economic losses for the producers, distributers and consumers of fresh and stored produce. This chapter summarizes current knowledge about the biology of a model fleshy fruit, tomato, during B. cinerea infections. The information presented emphasizes how ripening regulation and events in the host influence resistance when fruit are unripe and susceptibility when fruit are ripe. Fruit ripening regulators (e.g., transcription factors, epigenetic modifiers and hormones) and events unique to ripening that can impact the susceptibility of tomato fruit to B. cinerea are discussed. Understanding the processes in the fruit that underlie the shift from resistance to susceptibility during ripening and resolving how B. cinerea modifies its strategies of infection in response to the developmental changes of the host may guide efforts to improve the resistance of fruit to B. cinerea and other fungal pathogens.

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Blanco-Ulate, B., Vincenti, E., Cantu, D., Powell, A.L.T. (2016). Ripening of Tomato Fruit and Susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea . In: Fillinger, S., Elad, Y. (eds) Botrytis – the Fungus, the Pathogen and its Management in Agricultural Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23371-0_19

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