European COoperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action Food & Agriculture FA1106 – QualityFruit

How fleshy fruits grow, ripen and produce their sensory and nutritional characteristics that make them so popular with consumers? Are tomato and grape using common or different strategies and signaling pathways to initiate their maturation process? To answer these questions the Laboratory of Genomics and Biotechnology of Fruits coordinates since July 2012 the COST Action FA1106 “QualityFruit”. This network funded by the European Commission includes up to 47 laboratories, working on fruit, from 22 Euro- pean countries. The four year budget finance scientific conferences, workshops, thematic schools or inter-laboratory exchanges to foster cooperation between European researchers and promote new research initiatives that seek for the mechanism controlling fleshy fruit development and quality.