The various crop species are major agricultural products and play an indispensable role in
sustaining human life. Over a long period, breeders strove to increase crop yield and …

Climate change imposes a severe threat to agricultural systems, food security, and human
nutrition. Meanwhile, efforts in crop and livestock gene editing have been undertaken to …

Fruits are major sources of essential nutrients and serve as staple foods in some areas of
the world. The increasing human population and changes in climate experienced worldwide …

Fruit color is an important horticultural trait, which greatly affects consumer preferences. In
tomato, fruit color is determined by the accumulation of different pigments, such as …

Carotenoids are vital phytonutrients widely recognised for their health benefits. Therefore, it
is vital to thoroughly investigate the metabolic regulatory network underlying carotenoid …

Dietary anthocyanins are important health-promoting antioxidants that make a major
contribution to the quality of fruits. It is intriguing that most tomato cultivars do not produce …

In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), as in other plants, the immunity hormone jasmonate (JA)
triggers genome-wide transcriptional changes in response to pathogen and insect attack …

The narrow genetic base of tomato poses serious challenges in breeding. Hence, with the
advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated …

Although maturity date (MD) is an essential factor affecting fresh fruit marketing and has a
pleiotropic effect on fruit taste qualities, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear …

Genome-editing tools including meganucleases, zinc finger nucleases, transcription
activator-like effector nucleases and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …