The SlIMP3 has potential as an important candidate gene for molecular breeding with the goal of improving shelf-life of tomato fruit. Interestingly, treating tomato fruits with myoinositol also improved cell wall bio-genesis, delayed softening, and extended shelf-life in fruits. Litchi fruit lost less water after myoinositol treatment . Collectively, all these results demonstrate that myoinositol has …
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TA was measured using the tomato juice with the TitraLab TIM850 Titration Manager
The Cnr mutation is also thought to be a gain of function mutation, although the mechanism has yet to be understood . The Cnr mutation results from hypermethylation upstream of the gene near the promoter and has been shown to inhibit the genome-wide demethylation cascade associated with normal tomato ripening . Previously, these TFs were …
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A second closely related principle is naturalization— genetic adaptation to local conditions
Using the number of cities in which a tephritid species has been detected as a proxy for area infested, figure 2a shows that in 1960 there were only two California cities in which tephritids had been detected . However, by 1970 the number of cities with a tephritid detection had increased to 13, by 1990 …
The pre-drying sulfur treatment had significant impact on the survival of these pathogens
Taking dried peaches made without sulfur as an example, Salmonella survived the entire 180 days of storage with the final level of 4.38 ± 0.08 log CFU/g when the storage temperature was 5 °C. When the storage temperature was 20 °C, Salmonella fell below the limit of detection after 90 days of storage although they …
The ABA-treated fruit also showed a higher number of stained xylem vessels
The ABA-sprayed plants had an average fruit phloem sap uptake of 0.778ml fruit–1 d–1 and an average phloem sap solute concentration of 301mg ml–1 . Therefore, the solute accumulation per day was 1.04×144.3=150.07mg fruit–1 d–1 in non-ABA-sprayed plants and 0.778×301=234.18mg fruit–1 d–1 in ABA-sprayed plants. Therefore, the results also showed that ABA-sprayed plants had higher …
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Our results support the indirect interaction between the TFs and ABA during ripening
Cnr also displayed similar functional enrichments to WT among their respective ripening-related DEGs, including photosynthesis-related pathways, carbohydrate, and amino acid metabolism, and plant hormone signal transduction . Compared to Cnr, rin shared a smaller number of ripening-related DEGs and functional enrichments with WT fruit . The number of ripening-related DEGs shared between nor and WT fruit was …
Pooled genotyping is one method of lowering the cost to breeders
Consequently, recombination between the causal and marker loci will occur during the breeding process and as allele frequencies change with each selection cycle, LD shifts impacting the accuracy of predictive models over time. GS models therefore requires regular updating and as such, model training becomes an important component of a modern breeding system. With the …
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