Abstract
Understanding how light regulates pigment composition and accumulation is crucial for postharvest management of fruit quality and nutritional value. In this study, we investigated the influence of light quality , specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit. We show that both lights expedite the progress of skin coloration in tomato fruit by promoting chlorophyll degradation, stimulating carotenoid biosynthesis , accelerating plastid conversion, and enhancing plant hormone (i.e., abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesis. However, red light shows higher efficiency in inducing color transition compared with blue light. Gene expression network analysis unraveled several modules that are associated with carotenoid metabolism and hormone biosynthesis in response to light treatments, among which the transcription factors including WRKY20, MYB12, ARR11, NAC16, bHLH46, ZNF69, and MYB58 were identified as potential key regulators. Collectively, our data provide new threads on the regulation of fruit coloration by light quality and highlight the potential utility of red LED treatment to improve the color and quality of tomato fruit.
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Claim · model-written summary
Blue and red lights expedited the progress of skin coloration in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- blue and red lightse0
- Outcome
- progress of skin coloratione1
- Direction
- expeditee1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e1“both lights expedite the progress of skin coloration in tomato fruit by promoting chlorophyll degradation, stimulating carotenoid biosynthesis, accelerating plastid conversion, and enhancing plant hormone (i.e., abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesis”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue and red lights promoted chlorophyll degradation in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- blue and red lightse0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll degradatione1
- Direction
- promotinge1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e1“both lights expedite the progress of skin coloration in tomato fruit by promoting chlorophyll degradation, stimulating carotenoid biosynthesis, accelerating plastid conversion, and enhancing plant hormone (i.e., abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesis”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue and red lights stimulated carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- blue and red lightse0
- Outcome
- carotenoid biosynthesise1
- Direction
- stimulatinge1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e1“both lights expedite the progress of skin coloration in tomato fruit by promoting chlorophyll degradation, stimulating carotenoid biosynthesis, accelerating plastid conversion, and enhancing plant hormone (i.e., abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesis”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue and red lights enhanced plant hormone (abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesis in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- blue and red lightse0
- Outcome
- plant hormone (i.e., abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesise1
- Direction
- enhancinge1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e1“both lights expedite the progress of skin coloration in tomato fruit by promoting chlorophyll degradation, stimulating carotenoid biosynthesis, accelerating plastid conversion, and enhancing plant hormone (i.e., abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesis”
Claim · model-written summary
Blue and red lights accelerated plastid conversion in tomato fruit.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- blue and red lightse0
- Outcome
- plastid conversione1
- Direction
- acceleratinge1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e1“both lights expedite the progress of skin coloration in tomato fruit by promoting chlorophyll degradation, stimulating carotenoid biosynthesis, accelerating plastid conversion, and enhancing plant hormone (i.e., abscisic acid and ethylene) biosynthesis”
Claim · model-written summary
Red light induced colour transition in tomato fruit with higher efficiency than blue light.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- red lighte2
- Outcome
- color transitione2
- Direction
- highere2
- Comparator
- blue lighte2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e2“red light shows higher efficiency in inducing color transition compared with blue light”
Claim · model-written summary
Gene expression modules were associated with carotenoid metabolism and hormone biosynthesis in response to light treatments; direction not stated.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- light treatmentse4
- Outcome
- carotenoid metabolism and hormone biosynthesise4
Not reportedDirection
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Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e4“Gene expression network analysis unraveled several modules that are associated with carotenoid metabolism and hormone biosynthesis in response to light treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
WRKY20, MYB12 and ARR11 were identified as potential key regulators of tomato fruit coloration.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Gene
- WRKY20, MYB12, ARR11e3
- Outcome
- potential key regulatorse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e3“the transcription factors including WRKY20, MYB12, ARR11, NAC16, bHLH46, ZNF69, and MYB58 were identified as potential key regulators”
Claim · model-written summary
NAC16, bHLH46 and ZNF69 were identified as potential key regulators of tomato fruit coloration.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Gene
- NAC16, bHLH46, ZNF69e3
- Outcome
- potential key regulatorse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e3“the transcription factors including WRKY20, MYB12, ARR11, NAC16, bHLH46, ZNF69, and MYB58 were identified as potential key regulators”
Claim · model-written summary
MYB58 was identified as a potential key regulator of tomato fruit coloration.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Gene
- MYB58e3
- Outcome
- potential key regulatorse3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“specifically the blue and red lights, on coloration of tomato fruit”
e3“the transcription factors including WRKY20, MYB12, ARR11, NAC16, bHLH46, ZNF69, and MYB58 were identified as potential key regulators”
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