Sugars play a key role in fruit quality, as they directly influence taste, and thus consumer
acceptance. Carbohydrates are the main resources needed by the plant for carbon and …

Glutamate occupies a central position in amino acid metabolism in plants. The acidic amino
acid is formed by the action of glutamate synthase, utilizing glutamine and 2-oxoglutarate …

Tomato represents an important source of fiber and nutrients in the human diet and is a
central model for the study of fruit biology. To identify components of fruit metabolic …

Tomato quality is a multi-faceted trait, involving many processes at the plant and fruit level,
which depend on interactions between cultural practices, genetic and environmental factors …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersium), an important fruit crop worldwide, requires efficient sugar
allocation for fruit development. However, molecular mechanisms for sugar import to fruits …

While the metabolic networks in developing seeds during the period of reserve
accumulation have been extensively characterized, much less is known about those present …

The possibility of applying grafting to improve fruit quality has been scarcely investigated.
Different shoot tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) genotypes were grafted onto distinctly …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a well-studied model of fleshy fruit development and
ripening. Tomato fruit development is well understood from a hormonal-regulatory …

The development and maturation of tomato fruits has received considerable attention
because of both the uniqueness of such processes to the biology of plants and the …

Carbon captured through photosynthesis is transported, and sometimes stored in plants, as
sugar. All organic compounds in plants trace to carbon from sugars, so sugar metabolism is …