Recent Advances in Studying the Regulation of Fruit Ripening in Tomato Using Genetic Engineering Approaches.

ABSTRACT: Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the most commercially essential vegetable crops cultivated worldwide. In addition to the nutritional value, tomato is an excellent model for studying climacteric fruits' ripening processes. Despite this, the available natural pool of genes that allows expanding phenotypic diversity is limited, and the difficulties of crossing using classical selection methods when stacking traits increase proportionally with each additional feature. Modern methods of the genetic engineering of tomatoes have extensive potential applications, such as enhancing the expression of existing gene(s), integrating artificial and heterologous gene(s), pointing changes in target gene sequences while keeping allelic combinations characteristic of successful commercial

SUBMITTER: Baranov D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10815249 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature