Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin enhanced tomato fruit softening.
- Taxon
- tomato fruit
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- 50 µM melatonin treatmente0
- Outcome
- fruit softeninge0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Verbatim
e0“50 µM melatonin treatment enhanced fruit softening”
t0“tomato fruit”
Title
Melatonin promotes ripening and improves quality of tomato fruit during postharvest life
Qianqian Sun; Na Zhang; Jinfang Wang; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 2014. doi:10.1093/jxb/eru332
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect 50 µM melatonin increased tomato fruit lycopene 5.8-fold versus control.
- Intervention effect PSY1 and CRTISO expression increased 2-fold.
- Intervention effect Water loss increased 8.3% under melatonin.
- Intervention effect Aquaporin gene expression increased 2- to 3-fold under melatonin.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased water-soluble pectin by 22.5%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin decreased protopectin by 19.5%.
- Intervention effect Cell wall modifying protein expression was up-regulated under melatonin.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased ethylene production by 27.1%.
- Intervention effect Melatonin accelerated the climacteric phase.
- Association Ethylene production alteration correlated with ACS4 expression alteration.
- Intervention effect Melatonin enhanced ethylene signal transduction gene expression.