title: Complex quality traits: now time to model.
abstract: A recently published dynamic peach model by Françoise Lescourret and Michel Génard simulates changes in quality during final stages of fruit growth. It predicts quality, emerging from complex processes and influenced by environment and management, remarkably well and describes complex emerging behaviour. The model could prove an excellent tool to integrate novel insight from metabolic profiling and pathways of taste-related compounds, ultimately enabling the analysis of gene networks responsible for fruit maturation processes.
authors.affiliation: Crop and Weed Ecology, Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University, 6709 RZ Haarweg 333, Wageningen, The Netherlands. paul.struik@wur.nl
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Struik
authors.forename: Xinyou
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: de Visser
mesh_terms: D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000254:growth & development*; D005638:Fruit / Q000254:growth & development*; D008954:Models, Biological