›› 2019, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (12): 2131-2140.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2019.12.22

• Review • Previous Articles    

Research progress of lignin biosynthesis and regulation during granulation of citrus

ZHANG Xu1, WANG Xiaojia1, LI Sichen1, DONG Tiantian1, WANG Zhihui1,2,*   

  1. 1.College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China;
    2.Institute of Pomology & Olericulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China;
  • Received:2019-05-14 Online:2019-12-25 Published:2019-12-25

Abstract: The granulation of citrus fruits is a physiological disease that is easy to occur in fruit ripening and postharvest storage. The accumulation of lignin is closely related to the formation of granulation of citrus fruits. The lignification of juice sacs is one of the most obvious phenomena in the process of granulation of citrus fruits. It has attracted the attention of fruit tree research scholars and achieved certain research progress. Therefore, this paper will use lignin biosynthesis and its regulation as the entry point to study the granulation of citrus fruits, review the research progress of key enzyme genes and related transcription factors in lignin biosynthesis pathway, and the problems in the mechanism of lignin synthesis in the regulation of citrus fruit granulation were summarized and the future research directions were prospected in order to provide reference for the follow-up research on citrus fruit granulation.

Key words: citrus, juice sac granulation, lignin, key enzyme, transcription factor

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