Occurrence of White Flesh Color and Refreshing Flavor Following <i>Phytoene Synthase 2A</i> Gene Variation in Loquat Fruit.

ABSTRACT: Loquat fruits from the apple tribe of Rosaceae ripen from late spring to early summer, when most fresh fruits are out of season. Compared with the orange-fleshed varieties, the white-fleshed varieties are usually preferentially chosen by consumers for a more favorable flavor. Though the breeding of white-fleshed cultivars with large fruit size greatly promoted the development of loquat production, the mechanisms of how fruits with lighter pigments are generated and how fruit flavor changes following flesh color shifting remain to be elucidated. Pigment measurements indicated carotenoids as the dominant pigment underlying the change in flesh color changing. Genotyping and haplotyping of 807 loquat accessions revealed that the rise of PSY2A^d-PSY2A^d

SUBMITTER: Su W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12046595 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature