Physiological and molecular functions of brassinosteroids during fruit development, ripening, and postharvest damage of horticultural products: A review

Gutiérrez-Villamil, Diego Alejandro; Magnitskiy, Stanislav; Balaguera-López, Helber Enrique

doi:10.1016/j.postharvbio.2024.112984

Postharvest Biology and Technology

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2024.112984

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Physiological and molecular functions of brassinosteroids during fruit development, ripening, and postharvest damage of horticultural products: A review

Diego Alejandro Gutiérrez-Villamil,

Stanislav Magnitskiy,

Helber Enrique Balaguera-López

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Preserving functional properties and inhibiting postharvest peel browning in guava during cold storage via 24-epibrassinolide application

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Asrey,

Singh

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Preserving functional properties and inhibiting postharvest peel browning in guava during cold storage via 24-epibrassinolide application

Menaka,

Asrey,

Singh

et al. 2024

Postharvest Biology and Technology

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Roles of Nitric Oxide and Brassinosteroid in Improving Fruit Quality during Postharvest: Potential Regulators?

Wei,

Zhong,

et al. 2024

J. Agric. Food Chem.

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Most postharvest fruits are highly perishable, which directly impairs fruit taste and causes an economic loss of fresh products. Thus, it is necessary to find effective techniques to alleviate this issue. Recently, nitric oxide (NO) and brassinosteroid (BR) have been developed as postharvest alternatives to improve fruit quality. This work mainly reviews the recent processes of NO and BR in improving fruit quality during postharvest. Exogenous NO or BR treatments delayed fruit senescence, enhanced disease resistance, and alleviated chilling injury in postharvest fruit, and potential physiological and biochemical mechanisms mainly include (1) enhancing antioxidant and defense ability, (2) affecting ethylene biosynthesis, (3) regulating sugar and energy metabolism, (4) mediating plant hormone signaling, and ( 5) regulating protein S-nitrosylation and DNA methylation. This review concludes the functions and mechanisms of NO and BR in improving postharvest fruit quality. Additionally, a specific finding is the possible crosstalk of applications of NO and BR during postharvest fruit storage, which provides new insights into the applicability of NO and BR for delaying fruit senescence, enhancing disease resistances of fruit, and alleviating chilling injury in postharvest fruit.

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Brassinosteroids: An Innovative Compound Family That Could Affect the Growth, Ripening, Quality, and Postharvest Storage of Fleshy Fruits

Garrido-Auñón,

Puente-Moreno,

García-Pastor

et al. 2024

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Brassinosteroids (BRs), a new family of plant hormones, have been used in a range of food staples, oil crops, and cereals. However, the scientific literature pertaining to their use in fleshy fruits remains scarce. This review presents, for the first time, the knowledge developed over the last decade on the role of BR preharvest treatments in crop yield and fruit quality properties at harvest and during storage, although information about the effects of BR postharvest treatments is also addressed. This review revealed that 24-epibrassinolide is the most used BR analogue in research experiments, either as a pre- or postharvest treatment, with doses ranging from 0.1 to 15 μM. Additionally, most of the research has been conducted on non-climacteric fruit species. In most of these preharvest treatments, an increase in crop yield has been reported, as well as enhanced anthocyanin concentration in red-coloured fruit. In addition, increases in firmness, total soluble solids, and phenolic content have also been observed. On the other hand, BR postharvest treatments led to the maintenance of these fruit quality properties during storage due to increased antioxidant systems, either enzymatic or non-enzymatic ones. Finally, as future perspectives, it is proposed to extend the research about BR treatments to other climacteric fruits and to deepen the knowledge of how BRs regulate physiological aspects from preharvest to postharvest. Furthermore, it is essential to investigate the role of BRs in the prevention of rot and biotic stress.

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Physiological and molecular functions of brassinosteroids during fruit development, ripening, and postharvest damage of horticultural products: A review

Cited by 4 publications

References 86 publications

Preserving functional properties and inhibiting postharvest peel browning in guava during cold storage via 24-epibrassinolide application

Preserving functional properties and inhibiting postharvest peel browning in guava during cold storage via 24-epibrassinolide application

Roles of Nitric Oxide and Brassinosteroid in Improving Fruit Quality during Postharvest: Potential Regulators?

Brassinosteroids: An Innovative Compound Family That Could Affect the Growth, Ripening, Quality, and Postharvest Storage of Fleshy Fruits

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