ArticlePLoS genetics2015
Auxin Response Factor SlARF2 Is an Essential Component of the Regulatory Mechanism Controlling Fruit Ripening in Tomato.
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- Transcriptional control of tomato fruit development and ripening.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Organ-level gene-regulatory networks inferred from transcriptomic data reveal context-specific regulation and highlight novel regulators of ripening and ABA-mediated responses in tomato.Plant communications · 2025Article
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- Transcriptomic reprogramming and epigenetic regulation underlying pollination-dependent and auxin-induced fruit set in tomato.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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- Auxin response factors: important keys for understanding regulatory mechanisms of fleshy fruit development and ripening.Horticulture research · 2024Article
- Ethylene in fruits: beyond ripening control.Horticulture research · 2024Article
- Advances in Plant Auxin Biology: Synthesis, Metabolism, Signaling, Interaction with Other Hormones, and Roles under Abiotic Stress.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Fruit ripening and postharvest changes in very early-harvested tomatoes.Horticulture research · 2024Article
- Auxin responsive factor MdARF17 promotes ethylene synthesis in apple fruits by activating MdERF003 expression.Plant cell reports · 2024Article
- Ethylene promotes fruit ripening initiation by downregulating photosynthesis, enhancing abscisic acid and suppressing jasmonic acid in blueberry (Vaccinium ashei).BMC plant biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ethylene is the main regulator of climacteric fruit ripening, by contrast the putative role of other phytohormones in this process remains poorly understood. The present study brings auxin signaling components into the mechanism regulating tomato fruit ripening through the functional characterization of Auxin Response Factor2 (SlARF2) which encodes a downstream component of auxin signaling. Two paralogs, SlARF2A and SlARF2B, are found in the tomato genome, both displaying a marked ripening-associated expression but distinct responsiveness to ethylene and auxin. Down-regulation of either SlARF2A or SlARF2B resulted in ripening defects while simultaneous silencing of both genes led to severe ripening inhibition suggesting a functional redundancy among the two ARFs. Tomato fruits under-expressing SlARF2 produced less climacteric ethylene and exhibited a dramatic down-regulation of the key ripening regulators RIN, CNR, NOR and TAGL1. Ethylene treatment failed to reverse the non-ripening phenotype and the expression of ethylene signaling and biosynthesis genes was strongly altered in SlARF2 down-regulated fruits. Although both SlARF proteins are transcriptional repressors the data indicate they work as positive regulators of tomato fruit ripening. Altogether, the study defines SlARF2 as a new component of the regulatory network controlling the ripening process in tomato.
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