Tieman, Denise; Zhu, Guangtao; Resende, Marcio F. R.; Lin, Tao; Nguyen, Cuong; Bies, Dawn; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Ortiz Beltran, Kristty Stephanie; Taylor, Mark; Zhang, Bo; Ikeda, Hiroki; Liu, Zhongyuan; Fisher, Josef; Zemach, Itay; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio José; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017-01-27)
[EN] Modern commercial tomato varieties are substantially less flavorful than heirloom varieties. To understand and ultimately correct this deficiency, we quantified flavor-associated chemicals in 398 modern, heirloom, and ...
Zacarías-García, Jaime; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Granell Richart, Antonio; Zacarias, Lorenzo; Rodrigo, Maria Jesus(Elsevier, 2024-12)
[EN] Kirkwood Navel and Ruby Valencia red-fleshed sweet oranges accumulate high concentrations of the carotenes phytoene, phytofluene and lycopene in the pulp. In order to gain insight into the parameters that influence ...
[EN] Introduction: Tomato is a high economic value crop worldwide with recognized nutritional properties and diverse postharvest potential. Nowadays, there is an emerging awareness about the exploitation and utilization ...
López-Gresa, María Pilar; Lisón, Purificación; Campos Beneyto, Laura; Rodrigo Bravo, Ismael; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Granell Richart, Antonio; Conejero Tomás, Vicente; Belles Albert, José Mª(Frontiers Media SA, 2017)
[EN] Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by plants are secondary metabolites that mediate the plant interaction with pathogens and herbivores. These compounds may perform direct defensive functions, i. e., acting as ...
[EN] Carotenoids possess important biological functions that make them essential components of the human diet. 8-Carotene and some other carotenoids have vitamin A activity while lutein and zeaxanthin, typically referred ...
Gómez Torrente, María Luisa(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-07-20)
[EN] The fruits belonging to the clementine varieties Clemenules and Clemenpons,
are of great commercial interest. They are morphologically indistinguishable, since
they have a very similar size, weight, diameter, ratio ...
Pons Puig, Clara; Casals, Joan; Palombieri, Samuela; Fontanet, Lilian; Riccini, Alessandro; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Ruggiero, Alessandra; Figás-Moreno, María Del Rosario; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Koukounaras, Athanasios; Picarella ,Maurizio E.; Suli, Maria; Fisher, Josef; Ziarsolo, Pello; Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Cañizares Sales, Joaquín; Soler Aleixandre, Salvador; Díez Niclós, Mª José Teresa De Jesús; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio José; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO(Springer Nature, 2022-01-05)
[EN] The Mediterranean basin countries are considered secondary centres of tomato diversification. However, information on phenotypic and allelic variation of local tomato materials is still limited. Here we report on the ...
Belda Palazón, Borja; Nohales Zafra, Maria Angeles; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Aceña, José L.; Delgado, Oscar; Fustero Lardies, Santos; Martínez, M. Carmen; Granell Richart, Antonio; Carbonell Gisbert, Juan; Ferrando Monleón, Alejandro Ramón(Frontiers Media, 2014-05-16)
The eukaryotic translation elongation factor eIF5A is the only protein known to contain the unusual amino acid hypusine which is essential for its biological activity. This post-translational modification is achieved by ...
[EN] The ability of zoophytophagous predators to produce defensive plant responses due to their phytophagous behavior has been recently demonstrated. In the case of tomatoes, the mirids Nesidiocoris tenuis and Macrolophus ...
[EN] Tomato flavour is an important goal for breeders. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are major determinants of tomato flavour. Although most tomato varieties for fresh market are F1 hybrids, most studies on the genetic ...
[EN] Despite citrus fruit are considered as non climacteric, ethylene is effectively used to accelerate external colour change of early-season citrus fruit in the Mediterranean area and is generally assumed to have no ...
Rubio-Moraga, A.; Ahrazem, Oussama; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Granell Richart, Antonio; Gómez Gómez, Lourdes(Public Library of Science, 2013-09)
Crocus sativus is the source of saffron spice, the processed stigma which accumulates glucosylated apocarotenoids known as crocins. Crocins are found in the stigmas of other Crocuses, determining the colourations observed ...
[EN] Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca subsp. vesca) is a wild relative of cultivated strawberry (F. 3 ananassa) producing small and typically conical fruits with an intense flavor and aroma. The wild strawberry
species, ...
[EN] Higher dietary intakes of flavonoids may have a beneficial role in cardiovascular disease prevention. Additionally, supplementation of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) in vegan diets can reduce risks associated to ...
[EN] When zoophytophagous mirids (Hemiptera: Miridae) feed on tomato plants they activate both direct and indirect defense mechanisms, which include the release of herbivore induced plant volatiles (HIPVs). HIPVs are capable ...
[EN] Crocins and picrocrocin are high-value hydrophilic pigments produced in saffron and used commercially in the food and pharmaceutical industries. These apocarotenoids are derived from the oxidative cleavage of zeaxanthin ...
Aragüez, Irene; Osorio, Sonia; Hoffmann, Thomas; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Medina-Escobar, Nieves; Granell Richart, Antonio; Botella, Miguel Ángel; Schwab, Wilfried; Valpuesta Fernandez, Victoriano(American Society of Plant Biologists, 2013-10)
[EN] Eugenol is a volatile that serves as an attractant for pollinators of flowers, acts as a defense compound in various plant tissues, and contributes to the aroma of fruits. Its production in a cultivated species such ...
Blanca Postigo, José Miguel; Pons Puig, Clara; Montero-Pau, Javier; Sánchez-Matarredona, David; Ziarsolo, Peio; Fontanet, Lilian; Fisher, Josef; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Casals, Joan; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Riccini, Alessandro; Pombarella, Samuela; Ruggiero, Alessandra; Suli, Maria; Grillo, Stephania; Díez, Maria José; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Cañizares Sales, Joaquín; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio José; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO(Oxford University Press, 2022-03-31)
[EN] The high phenotypic diversity observed among European traditional tomato varieties was created by traditional farmer-driven selection by inadvertently combining a very few polymorphic loci subjected to balancing ...
Juárez Ortega, Paloma; Fernández Del Carmen, María Asunción; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; Presa Castro, Silvia; Mico, Amparo; Granell Richart, Antonio; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente(American Chemical Society, 2014-08-13)
The production of neutralizing immunoglobulin A (IgA) in edible fruits as a means of oral passive immunization is a promising strategy for the inexpensive treatment of mucosal diseases. This approach is based on the ...
Hamza, Rim; Pérez-Hedo, Meritxell; Urbaneja, Alberto; Rambla Nebot, Jose Luis; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO; Gaddour, Kamel; BELTRAN PORTER, JOSE PIO; Cañas Clemente, Luís Antonio(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2018-01-25)
[EN] Background: For as long as 350 million years, plants and insects have coexisted and developed a set of relationships which affect both organisms at different levels. Plants have evolved various morphological and ...