Postharvest environment conditions of fruits and vegetables significantly affect its quality and shelf life. Bioengineering fruits and vegetables can enhance their value and durability. This book, Bioengineered Fruit and Vegetables: Trends in Postharvest Quality Improvement, addresses the issues related to postharvest losses in fruits and vegetable crops using cutting-edge technologies.
The book brings together the most recent developments in this field, such as gene overexpression approaches (enzymes, transcriptional factors, or combinatorial engineering), promoter engineering, enhancing postharvest stability (shelf life), epigenetic regulation, antioxidant-regulated expression, metabolic engineering, and regulation of postharvest pathogen infection and decay using biotechnological tools and much more. The book throws light on the current status as well as future prospects in this field as well.
The technologies covered include bioengineering, gene silencing, genome editing with zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (Cas9). Providing much-needed and up-to-date information on the application of modern technology and research for postharvest quality assurance and improvements, this volume offers the latest insights and understanding of modern biotechnological and genome engineering tools in improving postharvest quality attributes of fruits and vegetables.
With its comprehensive coverage of the latest technology in bioengineered fruits and vegetables, the book will serve as a reference for readers and an extremely enlightening tool for students, teachers, and professionals in the field of fruit and vegetable crops.