Claim · model-written summary
Overexpression of PbCSE1 increased lignin content in pear fruits.
- Taxon
- Pyrus bretschneideri
Pyrus ×bretschneiderie1 - Material
- cv. Dangshan Sue1
- Organ / stage
- pear fruitse4
- Treatment
- overexpression of PbCSE1e4
- Gene
- PbCSE1e4
- Outcome
- lignin contente4
- Direction
- increasede4
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Verbatim
e1“Pear [Pyrus bretschneideri cv. Dangshan Su] fruit quality is not always satisfactory owing to the presence of stone cells”
e4“The overexpression of PbCSE1 increased the lignin content in pear fruits”
Title
PbCSE1 promotes lignification during stone cell development in pear (Pyrus bretschneideri) fruit
Jiahui Xu; Xingyu Tao; Zhihua Xie; et al. Scientific Reports 2021. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-88825-0
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation The CSE gene family of P. bretschneideri (PbCSE) was identified.
- Association PbCSE1 was associated with lignin deposition and stone cell formation in pear.
- Intervention effect Overexpression of PbCSE1 delayed growth of Arabidopsis relative to wild-type plants.
- Intervention effect Overexpression of PbCSE1 increased lignin deposition and lignin content in Arabidopsis stems relative to wild-type plants.
- Observation Expression of lignin biosynthetic genes was increased in pear fruits.
- Observation Expression of lignin biosynthetic genes was increased in Arabidopsis.
- Mechanism PbCSE1 plays an important role in cell lignification in pear.