ArticlePlant molecular biology2016
A CURLY LEAF homologue controls both vegetative and reproductive development of tomato plants.
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- Epigenetic regulation in tomato fruit ripening.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Molecular and Genetic Events Determining the Softening of Fleshy Fruits: A Comprehensive Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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- Spatiotemporal Regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 Enables Efficient, Precise, and Heritable Edits in Plant Genomes.Frontiers in genome editing · 2022Review
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- Unraveling Cuticle Formation, Structure, and Properties by Using Tomato Genetic Diversity.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Review
- Histone posttranslational modifications rather than DNA methylation underlie gene reprogramming in pollination-dependent and pollination-independent fruit set in tomato.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Tomato fruit as a model for tissue-specific gene silencing in crop plants.Horticulture research · 2020Article
- The making of virgin fruit: the molecular and genetic basis of parthenocarpy.Journal of experimental botany · 2018Review
- Transcriptome analysis of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) shoots reveals a crosstalk between auxin and strigolactone.PloS one · 2018Article
- Rosaceae Fruit Development, Ripening and Post-harvest: An Epigenetic Perspective.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Review
- Polycomb-group protein SlMSI1 represses the expression of fruit-ripening genes to prolong shelf life in tomato.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- DNA Methylation and Chromatin Regulation during Fleshy Fruit Development and Ripening.Frontiers in plant science · 2016Review
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Abstract
The Enhancer of Zeste Polycomb group proteins, which are encoded by a small gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana, participate to the control of plant development. In the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), these proteins are encoded by three genes (SlEZ1, SlEZ2 and SlEZ3) that display specific expression profiles. Using a gene specific RNAi strategy, we demonstrate that repression of SlEZ2 correlates with a general reduction of H3K27me3 levels, indicating that SlEZ2 is part of an active PRC2 complex. Reduction of SlEZ2 gene expression impacts the vegetative development of tomato plants, consistent with SlEZ2 having retained at least some of the functions of the Arabidopsis CURLY LEAF (CLF) protein. Notwithstanding, we observed significant differences between transgenic SlEZ2 RNAi tomato plants and Arabidopsis clf mutants. First, we found that reduced SlEZ2 expression has dramatic effects on tomato fruit development and ripening, functions not described in Arabidopsis for the CLF protein. In addition, repression of SlEZ2 has no significant effect on the flowering time or the control of flower organ identity, in contrast to the Arabidopsis clf mutation. Taken together, our results are consistent with a diversification of the function of CLF orthologues in plants, and indicate that although partly conserved amongst plants, the function of EZ proteins need to be newly investigated for non-model plants because they might have been recruited to specific developmental processes.
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