Is ATP a signaling regulator for postharvest chilling tolerance in fruits?

Abstract

Low-temperature storage is used to extend the shelf life of fruits, but prolonged storage at temperatures below tolerable levels may cause postharvest chilling injury (PCI) in sensitive commodities. This review aims to highlight adenosine triphosphate (ATP) activation and the interplay of extracellular ATP (eATP) and intracellular ATP (iATP) in fruits and to find out its significance in mitigating PCI. Various pathways, such as the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the pentose phosphate pathway, the γ-aminobutyric acid shunt pathway, and the cytochrome pathway, are studied critically to elucidate their role in continuous ATP supply and maintaining the membrane fluidity and integrity. This review summarizes the treatments helpful in modulating energy metabolism in fruit. Additionally, this work provides insights into the energy status in attenuating chilling tolerance. Moreover, it states the potential of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in mitigating PCI. Furthermore, it discusses the role of eATP and its receptor DORN1 in mitigating chilling stress.

Acknowledgements

Hansika Sati would like to thank Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, for providing DST-INSPIRE fellowship [IF220107] for pursuing Ph.D. The authors are grateful to the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, India for providing all facilities. Internal communication number: MS-P-003.

Author contributions

H.S. did data curation, formal analysis, validation, visualization, and wrote the original draft; H.S.O. provided the resources, supervised, reviewed, and edited the draft; S.P. conceptualized, supervised, validated, visualized, resource generation, reviewed and edited the draft.

Data availability

No data was used for the research described in the article.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Supplementary Data

Supplementary data is available at Horticulture Research online.

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