Function and regulation of plant invertases: sweet sensations

T Roitsch, MC González - Trends in plant science, 2004 - cell.com
The disaccharide sucrose and the cleavage products glucose and fructose are the central
molecules for carbohydrate translocation, metabolism and sensing in higher plants …

Genome mapping and molecular breeding of tomato

MR Foolad - International journal of plant genomics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, is the second most consumed vegetable
worldwide and a well‐studied crop species in terms of genetics, genomics, and breeding. It …

Zooming in on a quantitative trait for tomato yield using interspecific introgressions

E Fridman, F Carrari, YS Liu, AR Fernie, D Zamir - Science, 2004 - science.org
To explore natural biodiversity we developed and examined introgression lines (ILs)
containing chromosome segments of wild species (Solanum pennellii) in the background of …

Posttranslational elevation of cell wall invertase activity by silencing its inhibitor in tomato delays leaf senescence and increases seed weight and fruit hexose level

Y Jin, DA Ni, YL Ruan - The Plant Cell, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Invertase plays multiple pivotal roles in plant development. Thus, its activity must be tightly
regulated in vivo. Emerging evidence suggests that a group of small proteins that inhibit …

[HTML][HTML] Unused natural variation can lift yield barriers in plant breeding

A Gur, D Zamir - PLoS biology, 2004 - journals.plos.org
Natural biodiversity is an underexploited sustainable resource that can enrich the genetic
basis of cultivated plants with novel alleles that improve productivity and adaptation. We …

Metabolic regulation underlying tomato fruit development

F Carrari, AR Fernie - Journal of experimental botany, 2006 - academic.oup.com
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 …

A tomato vacuolar invertase inhibitor mediates sucrose metabolism and influences fruit ripening

G Qin, Z Zhu, W Wang, J Cai, Y Chen, L Li… - Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Fruit ripening is a complex process that involves a series of physiological and biochemical
changes that ultimately influence fruit quality traits, such as color and flavor. Sugar …

In silico screening of a saturated mutation library of tomato

N Menda, Y Semel, D Peled, Y Eshed… - The Plant …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive mutant population is a basic resource for exploring gene function. We
developed an isogenic tomato 'mutation library'in the genetic background of the inbred …

RNA interference of LIN5 in tomato confirms its role in controlling Brix content, uncovers the influence of sugars on the levels of fruit hormones, and demonstrates the …

MI Zanor, S Osorio, A Nunes-Nesi, F Carrari… - Plant …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
It has been previously demonstrated, utilizing intraspecific introgression lines, that
Lycopersicum Invertase5 (LIN5), which encodes a cell wall invertase, controls total soluble …

Far‐red radiation stimulates dry mass partitioning to fruits by increasing fruit sink strength in tomato

Y Ji, D Nuñez Ocaña, D Choe, DH Larsen… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Far‐red (FR) light promotes fruit growth by increasing dry mass partitioning to fruits, but the
mechanism behind this is unknown. We hypothesise that it is due to an increased fruit sink …