Progress on Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of Chloroplast Development in Fleshy Fruit

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Yuting Cheng¹  Tongyu Gu¹  Imran Khan¹  Xuan Zhao¹  Xueyun Hu²  Ting Jia² 

[1] College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China;Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China;

关键词: fleshy fruit;    chloroplast development;    chromoplast;    nutritional quality;    pigment;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijms21186951

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Edible fleshy fruits are important food sources in the human diet. Their yield and nutritional quality have long been considered as breeding targets for improvement. Various developing fleshy fruits with functional chloroplasts are capable of photosynthesis and contribute to fruit photosynthate, leading to the accumulation of metabolites associated with nutritional quality in ripe fruit. Although tomato high-pigment mutants with dark-green fruits have been isolated for more than 100 years, our understanding of the mechanism of chloroplast development in fleshy fruit remain poor. During the past few years, several transcription factors that regulate chloroplast development in fleshy fruit were identified through map-based cloning. In addition, substantial progress has been made in elucidating the mechanisms that how these transcription factors regulate chloroplast development. This review provides a summary and update on this progress, with a framework for further investigations of the multifaceted and hierarchical regulation of chloroplast development in fleshy fruit.

【 授权许可】

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