Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

High-resolution spatiotemporal transcriptome mapping of tomato fruit development and ripening

  • Yoshihito Shinozaki,
  • Philippe Nicolas,
  • Noe Fernandez-Pozo,
  • Qiyue Ma,
  • Daniel J. Evanich,
  • Yanna Shi,
  • Yimin Xu,
  • Yi Zheng,
  • Stephen I. Snyder,
  • Laetitia B. B. Martin,
  • Eliel Ruiz-May,
  • Theodore W. Thannhauser,
  • Kunsong Chen,
  • David S. Domozych,
  • Carmen Catalá,
  • Zhangjun Fei,
  • Lukas A. Mueller,
  • James J. Giovannoni,
  • Jocelyn K. C. Rose

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02782-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Cell-type transcriptome profiling greatly elucidate organismal development. Here, the authors report a spatiotemporally resolved comprehensive transcriptome analysis of tomato fruit ontogeny and suggest a new model of fruit maturation which initiates in internal tissues then radiates outwards.