Background Food flavor is a key factor affecting sensory quality. Predicting and regulating
flavor can result in exceptional flavor characteristics and improve consumer preferences and …

Phytohormones are integral to the regulation of fruit development and maturation. This
review expands upon current understanding of the relationship between hormone signaling …

Missing heritability in genome-wide association studies defines a major problem in genetic
analyses of complex biological traits,. The solution to this problem is to identify all causal …

Effective utilization of wild relatives is key to overcoming challenges in genetic improvement
of cultivated tomato, which has a narrow genetic basis; however, current efforts to decipher …

Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) belongs to the Solanaceae family and is the second
most important fruit or vegetable crop next to potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). It is cultivated …

Breeding of crops over millennia for yield and productivity has led to reduced genetic
diversity. As a result, beneficial traits of wild species, such as disease resistance and stress …

Modern tomatoes have narrow genetic diversity limiting their improvement potential. We
present a tomato pan-genome constructed using genome sequences of 725 …

Soluble sugars, organic acids and volatiles are important components that determine unique
fruit flavor and consumer preferences. However, the metabolic dynamics and underlying …

Humans heavily rely on dozens of domesticated plant species that have been further
improved through intensive breeding. To evaluate how breeding changed the tomato fruit …