The advances in gene in ripening bananas, including ethylene biosynthesis, respiration, carbohydrate metabolism, cell wall degradation and other ripening-related events, are reviewed.

• 本文从乙烯生物合成、呼吸作用、碳水化合物代谢、细胞壁降解及其它有关成熟的代谢过程等方面,概述与香蕉果实成熟相关的基因研究进展。