AGPs roles in Arabidopsis fruit development

By 2050, the global population is projected to reach approximately 9.7 billion, adding significant pressure on the world's food production systems. This global population increase will require a substantial improve in food supply, including fruits, which are essential for human nutrition. To understand the fundamental molecular mechanisms related to the fruit development is extremely important for increasing crop productivity and high-quality fruit and seed production. Furthermore, the knowledge acquired in this process will be important for developing fruit crops resilient to changing climates, meeting this demand sustainably and ensuring food security. FruitAGPs aims to provide new insights into the role of Arabinogalactan Proteins (AGPs), cell wall glycoproteins crucial for plant growth and development, and their putative transcriptional regulation in fruit tissues providing crucial knowledge about their functions in these tissues. This will be achieved using a combination of cutting edge genetic, proteomic and molecular biology approaches in Arabidopsis thaliana. Both the host laboratory and researcher stand to benefit from FruitAGPs, as it bridges two distinct molecular research fields focused on the same developmental process: fruit development.