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Unraveling the signal scenario of fruit set

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Long-term goals to impact or modify fruit quality and yield have been the target of researchers for many years. Different approaches such as traditional breeding, mutation breeding, and transgenic approaches have revealed a regulatory network where several hormones concur in a complex way to regulate fruit set and development, and these networks are shared in some way among species with different kinds of fruits. Understanding the molecular and biochemical networks of fruit set and development could be very useful for breeders to meet the current and future challenges of agricultural problems.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments on this review. We thank the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT) for a PhD fellowship to MSS (229496). This work in the de Folter laboratory is financed by the CONACyT Grant 177739.

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  1. Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad (LANGEBIO), Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN), Km. 9.6 Libramiento Norte, Carretera Irapuato-León, CP 36821, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

    Mariana Sotelo-Silveira & Stefan de Folter

  2. Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioquímica, CINVESTAV-IPN, Km. 9.6 Libramiento Norte, Carretera Irapuato-León, CP 36821, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

    Nayelli Marsch-Martínez

  3. Laboratorio de Bioquímica, Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Garzón 780, CP 12900, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Mariana Sotelo-Silveira

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Sotelo-Silveira, M., Marsch-Martínez, N. & de Folter, S. Unraveling the signal scenario of fruit set. Planta 239, 1147–1158 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-014-2057-7

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