Heat stress severely impairs crop growth and production. WRKY transcription factors are key regulators of plant responses to abiotic stresses, but the mechanisms by which these transcription factors respond to heat stress in tomato are poorly understood. In this study, we identified a transcription factor SlWRKY5, whic...
Guo-Bin Li, Guo Chen, Jiao Dang et al.· Plant, Cell and Environment· 0 citations
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), a cornerstone of global agriculture and nutrition, has undergone decades of breeding focused on yield and stress resilience. Yet, consumer-driven traits such as fruit uniformity, flavor complexity, and nutritional value remain suboptimal. The emerging convergence of hormonal biology and p...
Maryam Tahira, Wen-Ran Su, Faizan Khurram Maqsood et al.· Plant physiology and biochem...· 0 citations
Ascorbic acid (AsA) determines fruit nutritional quality and antioxidant capacity in tomato, but available genetic resources for its improvement are limited. Here, we integrated natural variation analysis with upstream open reading frames (uORFs) editing to identify and engineer determinants of AsA accumulation. A natu...
