Fruit tree crops are agricultural commodities of high economic importance, while fruits also represent one of the most vital components of the human diet. Therefore, a great effort has been made to understand the molecular mechanisms covering fundamental biological processes in fruit tree physiology and fruit biology. Thanks to the development of cutting-edge "omics" technologies such as proteomic analysis, scientists now have powerful tools to support traditional fruit tree research. Such proteomic analyses are establishing high-density 2DE reference maps and peptide mass fingerprint databases that can lead fruit science into a new postgenomic research era. Here, an overview of the application of proteomics in key aspects of fruit tree physiology as well as in fruit biology, including defense responses to abiotic and biotic stress factors, is presented. A panoramic view of ripening-related proteins is also discussed, as an example of proteomic application in fruit science.

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果树科学领域中的蛋白质组学：对水果防御，发育和成熟的新见解。

果树作物是具有重要经济意义的农产品，而水果也代表了人类饮食中最重要的组成部分之一。因此，人们付出了巨大的努力来理解涵盖果树生理学和水果生物学中基本生物学过程的分子机制。由于蛋白质组学分析等尖端的“组学”技术的发展，科学家现在拥有了支持传统果树研究的强大工具。此类蛋白质组学分析正在建立高密度的2DE参考图谱和肽质量指纹数据库，可以将水果科学带入一个新的后基因组研究时代。在此，蛋白质组学在果树生理学以及水果生物学的关键方面的应用概述，包括对非生物和生物应激因素的防御反应。还讨论了与成熟相关的蛋白质的全景图，作为蛋白质组学在水果​​科学中的应用实例。