There are many new developments in knowledge of the factors affecting fruit ripeness, and this monograph is a comprehensive account covering the latest molecular mechanisms regulating fruit ripening, its impact on human nutrition and emerging research and technologies.

Contributions by: Hiroshi Ezura, Alisdair Fernie, Giovanni Giuliano, Mark Tucker, Kunsog Chen, Joseph Hirschberg, Angelos Kannellis, Christophe Rothan, Véronique Cheynier, Don Grierson, Arun Sharma, Christopher Davies, Kailash Bansal, Mathilde Causse, Cornelius Barry, Autar K Handa, Jim Giovannoni, Abhaya Dandekar, Asaph Aharoni