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Inheritance of Secondary Metabolites and Gene Expression Related to Tomato Fruit Quality

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23116163

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tomato; breeding; flavour; volatiles; mode of inheritance; gene expression

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  1. CIFRE project Qualhytom [2018/1239]
  2. ANR project TomEpiSet [ANR-16-CE20-0014]
  3. European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, HARNESSTOM [101000716]

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This study aimed to investigate the transgressive behaviors of fruit metabolic content in tomatoes. Through the analysis of metabolome and transcriptome data, various modes of inheritance were identified and candidate genes that may drive changes in fruit volatile organic compound contents were proposed.
Flavour and nutritional quality are important goals for tomato breeders. This study aimed to shed light upon transgressive behaviors for fruit metabolic content. We studied the metabolic contents of 44 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), 18 polyphenolics, together with transcriptome profiles in a factorial design comprising six parental lines and their 14 F1 hybrids (HF1) among which were five pairs of reciprocal HF1. After cluster analyses of the metabolome dataset and co-expression network construction of the transcriptome dataset, we characterized the mode of inheritance of each component. Both overall and per-cross mode of inheritance analyses revealed as many additive and non-additive modes of inheritance with few reciprocal effects. Up to 66% of metabolites displayed transgressions in a HF1 relative to parental values. Analysis of the modes of inheritance of metabolites revealed that: (i) transgressions were mostly of a single type whichever the cross and poorly correlated to the genetic distance between parental lines; (ii) modes of inheritance were scarcely consistent between the 14 crosses but metabolites belonging to the same cluster displayed similar modes of inheritance for a given cross. Integrating metabolome, transcriptome and modes of inheritance analyses suggested a few candidate genes that may drive important changes in fruit VOC contents.

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