Although many genomic regions encoding putative transcription factors have been identified in sequencing efforts, the roles of relatively few have been elucidated. Now, working with strawberry (草莓), Molina-Hidalgo et al.(2017) have identified a second transcription factor (FaDOF2) involved in regulating eugenol synthase (丁香酚合酶) and production of the aroma compound (香气化合物) eugenol (丁香酚) during strawberry ripening. Not only is this important in understanding the control of ripening in non-climacteric fruit (无呼吸跃进期果实) but, potentially, in breeding to reintroduce (再引入) flavor into modern germplasm (种质).

研究方向：分子遗传学。

Published data: September 30, 2017.