Post-transcriptional regulation of fruit ripening and disease resistance in tomato by the vacuolar protease SlVPE3.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Proteases represent one of the most abundant classes of enzymes in eukaryotes and are known to play key roles in many biological processes in plants. However, little is known about their functions in fruit ripening and disease resistance, which are unique to flowering plants and required for seed maturation and dispersal. Elucidating the genetic mechanisms of fruit ripening and disease resistance is an important goal given the biological and dietary significance of fruit.

Results

Through expression profile analyses of genes encoding tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cysteine proteases, we identify a number of genes whose expression increases during fruit ripening. RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated repression of SlVPE3, a vacuolar protease gene, results in alterations i

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5341188 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature