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"Under the Hood"
Domingos Almeida,
hard at work, isolating cell walls from tomato pericarp.
Talks at international meetings, 2001
IV Iberian Congress of Horticultural Sciences, Cáceres, Spain, 7 - 11 May. Regulation of textural changes during fruit ripening.
Talks at international meetings, 2000
Postharvest 2000, Jerusalem, 26-31 March 2000. See the slides presented.
97th ASHS Conference, Orlando, 23-26 July 2000. See the slides presented.
Objectives and interests
My long term goal is to contribute to the
elucidation of the senescence mechanism in plant organs in order to contribute to
the development of technologies that assure the quality and wholesomeness of food supply
and more enjoyable ornamentals.
My current research is focused on characterizing the regulation of cell wall disassembly and
softening during fruit ripening and as result of chilling injury.
Current research projects
Regulation of cell wall metabolism in ripening fruit.
Pectin metabolism in chill-injured tomato fruit.