Claim · model-written summary
Starch accumulation correlated negatively with ethylene levels during late apple fruit development.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Organ / stage
- late fruit developmente0
- Compound
- ethylenee0
- Outcome
- starch accumulatione0
- Direction
- negative correlatione0
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Verbatim
t0“in Apple”
e0“a negative correlation between starch accumulation and ethylene levels during late fruit development”
Title
Fan Xiao; Chu‐Kun Wang; Jiu‐Cheng Zhang; et al. Plant Biotechnology Journal 2026. doi:10.1111/pbi.70561
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Transcriptomic analysis identified the alpha-amylase gene MdAMY1 as a key component of the ethylene-starch regulatory pathway.
- Mechanism MdAMY1, an ethylene-responsive gene, acts as a positive regulator of starch-to-sugar conversion.
- Mechanism The bHLH transcription factor MdbHLH149 directly represses MdAMY1 transcription.
- Mechanism MdERF17 interacts with MdbHLH149 and synergistically enhances the repression of MdAMY1.
- Mechanism The MdERF17-MdbHLH149-MdAMY1 module acts downstream of ethylene signalling to control starch degradation.