期刊
PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 87, 期 3, 页码 249-260出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-014-0273-y
关键词
Tomato; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamines; Ethylene; Fruit ripening; Transgenic plants
资金
- Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India), New Delhi [BT/PR/2990/Agr/16/232/2002, BT/PR8657/PBD/16/738/2007]
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Diamine putrescine (Put) and polyamines; spermidine (Spd) and spermine (Spm) are essential component of every cell because of their involvement in the regulation of cell division, growth and development. The aim of this study is to enhance the levels of Put during fruit development and see its implications in ripening and quality of tomato fruits. Transgenic tomato plants over-expressing mouse ornithine decarboxylase gene under the control of fruit-specific promoter (2A11) were developed. Transgenic fruits exhibited enhanced levels of Put, Spd and Spm, with a concomitant reduction in ethylene levels, rate of respiration and physiological loss of water. Consequently such fruits displayed significant delay of on-vine ripening and prolonged shelf life over untransformed fruits. The activation of Put biosynthetic pathway at the onset of ripening in transgenic fruits is also consistent with the improvement of qualitative traits such as total soluble solids, titratable acids and total sugars. Such changes were associated with alteration in expression pattern of ripening specific genes. Transgenic fruits were also fortified with important nutraceuticals like lycopene, ascorbate and antioxidants. Therefore, these transgenic tomatoes would be useful for the improvement of tomato cultivars through breeding approaches.
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