ArticlePlant physiology2006
Grapes on steroids. Brassinosteroids are involved in grape berry ripening.
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- Molecular regulation of fatty acid biosynthesis and oil composition during olive drupe ripening.Plant cell reports · 2025Article
- Toward understanding grapevine responses to climate change: a multi-stress and holistic approach.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Brassinosteroids: Biosynthesis, Signaling, and Hormonal Crosstalk as Related to Fruit Yield and Quality.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Manipulating brassinosteroid signaling pathway to genetically improve horticultural plants.aBIOTECH · 2025Review
- Sex on Steroids: How Brassinosteroids Shape Reproductive Development in Flowering Plants.Plant & cell physiology · 2024Review
- Brassinosteroids: An Innovative Compound Family That Could Affect the Growth, Ripening, Quality, and Postharvest Storage of Fleshy Fruits.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Research on the Mechanisms of Phytohormone Signaling in Regulating Root Development.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Transcription factors BZR1 and PAP1 cooperate to promote anthocyanin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis shoots.The Plant cell · 2024Article
- Ethylene biosynthesis and signal transduction during ripening and softening in non-climacteric fruits: an overview.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Non-climacteric fruit development and ripening regulation: 'the phytohormones show'.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Review
- Comprehensive Analysis of BR Receptor Expression under Hormone Treatment in the Rubber Tree (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Propiconazole-induced brassinosteroid deficiency reduces female fertility by inhibiting female gametophyte development in woodland strawberry.Plant cell reports · 2023Article
- Cell Wall Integrity Signaling in Fruit Ripening.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Characterization and gene expression patterns analysis implies BSK family genes respond to salinity stress in cotton.Frontiers in genetics · 2023Article
- Brassinosteroid Promotes Grape Berry Quality-Focus on Physicochemical Qualities and Their Coordination with Enzymatic and Molecular Processes: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Grape Berry Responses to Sequential Flooding and Heatwave Events: A Physiological, Transcriptional, and Metabolic Overview.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Fruit ripening is a unique plant developmental process with direct implications for our food supply, nutrition, and health. In contrast to climacteric fruit, where ethylene is pivotal, the hormonal control of ripening in nonclimacteric fruit, such as grape (Vitis vinifera), is poorly understood. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal hormones, essential for normal plant growth and development but not previously implicated in the ripening of nonclimacteric fruit. Here we show that increases in endogenous BR levels, but not indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) or GA levels, are associated with ripening in grapes. Putative grape homologs of genes encoding BR biosynthesis enzymes (BRASSINOSTEROID-6-OXIDASE and DWARF1) and the BR receptor (BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE 1) were isolated, and the function of the grape BRASSINOSTEROID-6-OXIDASE gene was confirmed by transgenic complementation of the tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) extreme dwarf (dx/dx) mutant. Expression analysis of these genes during berry development revealed transcript accumulation patterns that were consistent with a dramatic increase in endogenous BR levels observed at the onset of fruit ripening. Furthermore, we show that application of BRs to grape berries significantly promoted ripening, while brassinazole, an inhibitor of BR biosynthesis, significantly delayed fruit ripening. These results provide evidence that changes in endogenous BR levels influence this key developmental process. This may provide a significant insight into the mechanism controlling ripening in grapes, which has direct implications for the logistics of grape production and down-stream processing.
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