Tomato fruit development and metabolism

M Quinet, T Angosto, FJ Yuste-Lisbona… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Natural variation in crops: realized understanding, continuing promise

Y Liang, HJ Liu, J Yan, F Tian - Annual review of plant biology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Crops feed the world's population and shape human civilization. The improvement of crop
productivity has been ongoing for almost 10,000 years and has evolved from an experience …

Major impacts of widespread structural variation on gene expression and crop improvement in tomato

M Alonge, X Wang, M Benoit, S Soyk, L Pereira… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …

Rewiring of the fruit metabolome in tomato breeding

G Zhu, S Wang, Z Huang, S Zhang, Q Liao, C Zhang… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Bypassing negative epistasis on yield in tomato imposed by a domestication gene

S Soyk, ZH Lemmon, M Oved, J Fisher, KL Liberatore… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Selection for inflorescence architecture with improved flower production and yield is
common to many domesticated crops. However, tomato inflorescences resemble wild …

An InDel in the Promoter of Al-ACTIVATED MALATE TRANSPORTER9 Selected during Tomato Domestication Determines Fruit Malate Contents and Aluminum …

J Ye, X Wang, T Hu, F Zhang, B Wang, C Li… - The Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Deciphering the mechanism of malate accumulation in plants would contribute to a greater
understanding of plant chemistry, which has implications for improving flavor quality in crop …

Genomic analyses provide insights into the history of tomato breeding

T Lin, G Zhu, J Zhang, X Xu, Q Yu, Z Zheng, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The histories of crop domestication and breeding are recorded in genomes. Although tomato
is a model species for plant biology and breeding, the nature of human selection that altered …

De novo domestication of wild species to create crops with increased resilience and nutritional value

K Gasparini, J dos Reis Moreira, LEP Peres… - Current Opinion in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Creating crops with resistance to drought, soil salinity and insect damage, that
simultaneously have higher nutritional quality, is challenging to conventional breeding due …

Genomic variation in tomato, from wild ancestors to contemporary breeding accessions

J Blanca, J Montero-Pau, C Sauvage, G Bauchet, E Illa… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Domestication modifies the genomic variation of species. Quantifying this
variation provides insights into the domestication process, facilitates the management of …

Trait discovery and editing in tomato

C Rothan, I Diouf, M Causse - The Plant Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), which is used for both processing and fresh markets, is a
major crop species that is the top ranked vegetable produced over the world. Tomato is also …