Claim · model-written summary
Knockout fruits accumulated more abscisic acid late in storage than controls.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- α-Mannosidase knockout through CRISPR/Cas9e1
- Outcome
- accumulation of abscisic acid (ABA)e0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- later stages of storagee0
- Comparator
- control fruitse0
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Verbatim
t0“in tomato”
e0“in the later stages of storage, they also exhibited higher accumulation of abscisic acid (ABA) and lower accumulation of reactive oxygen species, along with better antioxidant capacity, compared to the control fruits”
e1“α-Mannosidase knockout through CRISPR/Cas9”
Title
Sushmita; Alka Srivastava; Gourav Jain; et al. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 2026. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2026.111017
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation α-Mannosidase is expressed during ripening.
- Intervention effect α-Mannosidase knockout increased fruit firmness.
- Intervention effect Knockout extended fruit shelf life.
- Intervention effect Knockout improved fruit moisture retention.
- Intervention effect Knockout downregulated SlRIN expression.
- Intervention effect Knockout downregulated downstream genes involved in cell wall degradation, ethylene biosynthesis and signaling.
- Intervention effect Knockout fruits accumulated less reactive oxygen species late in storage than controls.
- Intervention effect Knockout fruits had better antioxidant capacity late in storage than controls.
- Intervention effect Knockout preserved pericarp integrity.