Lihong Liu, Yuanyu Mao, Jirong Zheng, Songshen Hu, Tonglin Wang, Zhiyong Shao, Zhenyu Li, Yue Jian, Yuanyuan Li, Fanliang Meng, Yuening Li, Qiaomei Wang
Tomato fruit consumption is influenced by flavor and nutrient quality. In the present study, we investigate the impact of water saving irrigation (WSI) as a pre-harvest management on flavor and nutrient quality of tomato fruit. Our results demonstrate that WSI-treated tomato fruit exhibited improved sensory scores as assessed by a taste panel, accompanied by elevated levels of SlGLK2 expression, sugars, acids, and carotenoid contents compared to non-treated fruit. Notably, WSI treatment significantly enhanced the development of chloroplast and plastoglobulus in chromoplast, which served as carotenoid storage sites and upregulated the expression of carotenoid biosynthetic genes...
March 1, 2024: Plant Physiology and Biochemistry: PPB