文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Wu, Weijie ¹ ; Jiang, Bo ¹ ; Liu, Ruiling ¹ ; Han, Yanchao ¹ ; Fang, Xiangjun ¹ ; Mu, Honglei ¹ ; Farag, Mohamed A. ⁶ ; Simal-Gandara, Jesus ⁷ ; Prieto, Miguel A. ⁷ ; Chen, Hangjun ¹ ; Xiao, Jianbo ⁸ ; Gao, Haiyan ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Zhejiang Acad Agr Sci, Food Sci Inst, State Key Lab Managing Biot & Chem Threats Qual &, China Natl Light Ind, Hangzhou 310021, Peoples R China

2.Zhejiang Acad Agr Sci, Food Sci Inst, Key Lab Postharvest Handing Fruits, Minist Agr & Rural Affairs, Hangzhou 310021, Peoples R China

3.Zhejiang Acad Agr Sci, Food Sci Inst, Key Lab Fruits & Vegetables Postharvest & Proc Tec, China Natl Light Ind, Hangzhou 310021, Peoples R China

4.Zhejiang Acad Agr Sci, Food Sci Inst, China Natl Light Ind, Key Lab Postharvest Preservat & Proc Fruits & Vege, Hangzhou 310021, Peoples R China

5.Nanjing Agr Univ, Coll Food Sci & Technol, Nanjing 210095, Peoples R China

6.Cairo Univ, Coll Pharm, Pharmacognosy Dept, Cairo 11562, Egypt

7.Univ Vigo, Fac Sci, Dept Analyt & Food Chem, Nutr & Bromatol Grp, Orense 32004, Spain

8.Univ Vigo, Fac Sci, Dept Analyt & Food Chem, Orense 32004, Spain

关键词： Cuticular wax; Structure and function; Postharvest; Fruit quality

期刊名称：ENGINEERING （ 影响因子：12.8； 五年影响因子：13.6 ）

ISSN： 2095-8099

年卷期： 2023 年 23 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Cuticular wax plays a major role in the growth and storage of plant fruits. The cuticular wax coating, which covers the outermost layer of a fruit's epidermal cells, is insoluble in water. Cuticular wax is mainly composed of very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs); their derivatives, including esters, primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones; and triterpenoids. This complex mixture of lipids is probably biosynthesized in the epidermal cells of most plants and exuded onto the surface. Cuticular wax not only makes the fruit less susceptible to microbial infection but also reduces mechanical damage to the fruit, thereby maintaining the fruit's commodity value. To date, research has mostly focused on the changes, function, and regulation of fruit wax before harvest, while ignoring the changes and functions of wax in fruit storage. This paper reviews on the composition, structure, and metabolic regulation of cuticular wax in fruits. It also focuses on postharvest factors affecting wax composition, such as storage tempera-ture, relative humidity (RH), gas atmosphere, and as exogenous hormones; and the effects of wax on fruit postharvest quality, including water dispersion, fruit softening, physiological disorders, and disease resis-tance. These summaries may be of assistance in better understanding the changes in cuticular wax in postharvest fruit and the resulting effects on fruit quality. (c) 2023 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).