“…Although proteomic approaches have been used in the study of fruit ripening in tomato (Rocco et al, 2006), grape (Zhang et al, 2008), citrus (Muccilli et al, 2009;Perotti et al, 2011), prunus (Nilo et al, 2012), papaya (Huerta-Ocampo et al, 2012;Nogueira et al, 2012), mango (Andrade et al, 2012) and banana , there are only a few reports dealing with the response of plants to wounding (Shen et al, 2003;Chaves et al, 2009;Dafoe et al, 2009;Valcu et al, 2009;Lewandowska-Gnatowska et al, 2011;Soares et al, 2011;Barkla et al, 2013). Regarding apple proteomic studies, Guarino et al (2007) described the repertoire of proteins present in the pseudocarp tissues of three accessions of Malus × domestica Borkh.…”