Efficient generation of pink-fruited tomatoes using CRISPR/Cas9 system

作     者：Lei Deng Hang Wang Chuanlong Sun Qian Li Hongling Jiang Minmin Du Chang-Bao Li Chuanyou Li 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics National Centre for Plant Gene Research (Beijing) Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100101 China State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology College of Agronomy Shandong Agricultural University Tai'an 271018 China Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China) Ministry of Agriculture Beijing Vegetable Research Center Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences Beijing 100097 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Genetics and Genomics》 (遗传学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第45卷第1期

页      面：51-54页

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学科分类：09[农学] 0902[农学-园艺学] 090202[农学-蔬菜学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0100500 and 2016YFD0101703) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31601759 and 31471881) the Ministry of Agriculture of China (2016ZX08009-003-001) the Tai-Shan Scholar Program from the Shandong Provincial Government 

主　　题：Efficient generation of pink-fruited tomatoes using CRISPR/Cas9 system CR 

摘      要：Tomato （Solanum lycopersicum） is the leading vegetable crop worldwide and an essential component of a healthy diet （Lin et al., 2014; Du et al., 2017）. Fruit color is regarded as one of the most important commercial traits in tomato （The Tomato Genome Consortium, 2012）. Consumers in different regions have different color preferences. For example, European and American consumers prefer red tomatoes, while pink tomatoes are more pop- ular in Asia countries, particularly in China and Japan （Ballester et al., 2010; Lin et al., 2014）. However, most of tomato breeding ma- terials are red-fruited, thus the generation of pink-fruited materials is very important for Asian tomato production. Metabolomics and genetics studies demonstrate that the pink trait results from the absence of yellow-colored flavonoid naringenin chalcone （NarCh） in the peels,