Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) belongs to the Solanaceae family and is the second
most important fruit or vegetable crop next to potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). It is cultivated …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

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 …

Modern commercial tomato varieties are substantially less flavorful than heirloom varieties.
To understand and ultimately correct this deficiency, we quantified flavor-associated …

Plants produce a huge array of metabolites, far more than those produced by most other
organisms. Unraveling this diversity and its underlying genetic variation has attracted …

Sucrose metabolism plays pivotal roles in development, stress response, and yield
formation, mainly by generating a range of sugars as metabolites to fuel growth and …

Imported from the Andean region to Europe in the 16th century, today tomato is widespread
throughout the world and represents the most economically important vegetable crop …

Intensively bred fruit crops, including tomatoes and strawberries, are widely viewed as
lacking flavour. The lack of breeder focus on the consumer is largely due to the genetic …

Until recently, plant breeders have depended primarily on classicaltools to develop new and
improved products for producers andconsumers. However, with the advent of biotechnology …

Invertase (INV) hydrolyzes sucrose into glucose and fructose, thereby playing key roles in
primary metabolism and plant development. Based on their pH optima and sub-cellular …