ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2018
The role of ethylene in the regulation of ovary senescence and fruit set in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).
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- Coordinating Diverse Functions of miRNA and lncRNA in Fleshy Fruit.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Hormonal interactions underlying parthenocarpic fruit formation in horticultural crops.Horticulture research · 2022Article
- Tissue culture coupled with a gas exchange system offers new perspectives on phenotyping the developmental biology ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Auxin Coordinates Achene and Receptacle Development During Fruit Initiation inFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Fruit setting rewires central metabolism via gibberellin cascades.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Tomato Fruit Development and Metabolism.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Review
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Abstract
Fruit set is the developmental transition from ovary to young fruit, and generally requires pollination and fertilization. Although the mechanism for fruit set remains elusive, several lines of evidence have demonstrated that fruit set is triggered by activated metabolism of or increased sensitivity to the plant hormones auxin or gibberellins (GAs), which stimulate cell division and expansion within the ovary. Our recent study with tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) suggested that the gaseous hormone ethylene connects auxin and GA, suppressing initiation of fruit set by down-regulating GA accumulation. By contrast, reduced sensitivity to ethylene triggers accumulation of GA, but not auxin, through increasing bioactive GA biosynthesis and decreasing GA inactivation. These changes induce parthenocarpy accompanied by pollination-independent cell expansion in the ovary. Here, we provide evidence that ethylene likely promotes mRNA expression of the senescence-associated genes SlSAG12 and SlNAP in unpollinated ovaries. These results suggest that ethylene acts downstream of auxin and upstream of GA, and also suggest that ethylene promotes senescence of ovary that fail to set fruit in tomato.
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