Thioredoxin is a multifunctional acidic protein widely presented in organisms that regulates intracellular redox processes, participating in a series of biochemical reactions in cells to affect the growth and development of plants. Although the thioredoxin (TRX) gene family has been widespread recognized across various plant species, and the tomato genome has been sequenced for years now, of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has remained largely uncharted in terms of identifying and unraveling the functional intricacies of is TRX genes. In this study, 53 SlTRX genes were identified, unevenly distributed across 11 of the 12 tomato chromosomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs one of the grave environmental hazards, soil salinization seriously limits crop productivity, growth, and development. When plants are exposed to salt stress, they suffer a sequence of damage mainly caused by osmotic stress, ion toxicity, and subsequently oxidative stress. As sessile organisms, plants have developed many physiological and biochemical strategies to mitigate the impact of salt stress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChina CDC Wkly
December 2024
What Is Already Known About This Topic?: Lower extremity musculoskeletal diseases (LE-MSDs) have emerged as a significant contributor to the global disease economic burden and worker absenteeism, becoming a global public health concern. However, the epidemic characteristics of LE-MSDs among occupational populations in China are unknown.
What Is Added By This Report?: This report finds that the LE-MSDs prevalence rate among key occupational groups in China is 17.
Drought stress substantially decreases crop yields by causing flowers and fruits to detach prematurely. However, the molecular mechanisms modulating organ abscission under drought stress remain unclear. Here, we show that expression of CALMODULIN2 (CaM2) is specifically and sharply increased in the pedicel abscission zone (AZ) in response to drought and plays a positive role in drought-induced flower drop in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The yield and quality of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum. L) are often decreased when plants suffer from low light intensity and short-photoperiod in winter. Manipulation of the artificial light environment is a feasible technology to promote off-seasonal production and improve fruit nutritional quality in the greenhouse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFBNs are lipid-associated proteins that play a critical role in plant growth and stress response. However, the mechanisms of how FBNs proteins participate in the low night temperature response in tomato still unclear. Here we conducted a comprehensive genome-wide analysis of the FBN gene family in Solanum lycopersicum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsbS protein is essential for the rapid induction of non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) under low night temperatures (LNTs), but its stability is often affected by adverse environmental conditions. However, the regulatory mechanism for the stability of PsbS or chloroplast proteins remains to be fully characterized. We show that LNT decreases NPQ levels and SlPsbS protein abundance in tomato leaves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlower drop is a major cause for yield loss in many crops. Previously, we found that the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) INFLORESCENCE DEFICIENT IN ABSCISSION-Like (SlIDL6) gene contributes to flower drop induced by low light. However, the molecular mechanisms by which SlIDL6 acts as a signal to regulate low light-induced abscission remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSaline-alkali stress is a widely distributed abiotic stress that severely limits plant growth. γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) accumulates rapidly in plants under saline-alkali stress, but the underlying molecular mechanisms and associated regulatory networks remain unclear. Here, we report a MYB-like protein, I-box binding factor (SlMYBI), which positively regulates saline-alkali tolerance through induced GABA accumulation by directly modulating the glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) gene SlGAD1 in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Although studies have shown that work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are common and continue to be a major source of disability and work time loss, there are few reports about elbow WMSDs. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and associated factors of elbow WMSDs.
Methods: The valid questionnaires of 57501 workers from 15 different industries nationwide were collected and the c2 test and logistic regression analysis were applied to reveal the prevalence and risk factors of elbow WMSDs.
Drought is a major handicap for plant growth and development. WRKY proteins comprise one of the largest families of plant transcription factors, playing important roles in plant growth and stress tolerance. In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCold stress significantly limits the yield and quality of tomato. Deciphering the key genes related to cold tolerance is important for selecting and breeding superior cold-tolerant varieties. γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) responds to various types of stress by rapidly accumulating in plant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTomato is an important horticultural cash crop, and low-temperature stress has seriously affected the yield and quality of tomato. 5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is widely used in agriculture as an efficient and harmless growth regulator. It is currently unclear whether exogenous ALA can cope with low-temperature stress by regulating tomato starch content and phenylalanine metabolism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRural ecology is a comprehensive field of study that takes the rural social-ecological-economic systems as the objective object and emphasizes spatial carrier governance. The development of rural ecology in the New Era embodies and implements comprehensively the core concepts of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Cha-racteristics for a New Era, including harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, rural revitalization, green development, and the comprehensive construction of a socialist modernized nation. Under the goal of Chinese-style modernization, rural ecology exhibits characteristics distinct from the past, such as the integration of research objects, the intersectionality of basic theories, the computational feature of technical methods, and the orientation of exporting outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCold stress severely affects the growth and quality of tomato. 5-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) can effectively improve tomato's cold stress tolerance. In this study, a tomato gene, was identified Results showed that ALA strongly induced the expression of under cold stress-overexpressing lines showed increased resistance to cold stress through an enhanced ability to scavenge reactive oxygen species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAuxin regulates flower and fruit abscission, but how developmental signals mediate auxin transport in abscission remains unclear. Here, we reveal the role of the transcription factor BEL1-LIKE HOMEODOMAIN11 (SlBEL11) in regulating auxin transport during abscission in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). SlBEL11 is highly expressed in the fruit abscission zone, and its expression increases during fruit development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Agric Food Chem
February 2024
is a highly prized edible mushroom and is widely consumed for its distinctive taste and texture. The stipe of is significantly lower in priced compared to the pileus. The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive comparative analysis of the nutritional and biological properties between the pileus and stipe of .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIncreasing photosynthesis and light capture offers possibilities for improving crop yield and provides a sustainable way to meet the increasing global demand for food. However, the poor light transmittance of transparent plastic films and shade avoidance at high planting density seriously reduce photosynthesis and alter fruit quality in vegetable crops, and therefore it is important to investigate the mechanisms of light signaling regulation of photosynthesis and metabolism in tomato (). Here, a combination of red, blue, and white (R1W1B0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF, a highly sought-after edible mushroom worldwide, is evaluated based on its cap color as an essential commercial property indicator. In the present study, the effects of blue light on cap pigmentation in , as well as the synthesis and structural characteristics of melanin pigments within the cap were examined. The results showed that an increase in the proportion of blue light within the lighting environment promoted melanin synthesis and melanization of the cap.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalformed tomato fruit with multiple locules is a common physiological disorder that significantly affects the quality of tomatoes. Research has shown that the occurrence of malformed fruit in tomatoes is closely linked to the number of locules, and two key QTLs, and , are involved in controlling this trait. It has been observed that has a relatively weaker effect on increasing locule number, which is associated with two SNPs in the CArG repressor element downstream of the .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlants often need to withstand multiple types of environmental stresses (e.g., salt and low temperature stress) because of their sessile nature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCold stress usually causes the abscission of floral organs and a decline in fruit setting rate, seriously reducing tomato yield. Auxin is one of the key hormones that affects the abscission of plant floral organs; the () family is a key gene in the auxin biosynthesis pathway, but there are few research reports on the abscission of tomato flower organs. This experiment found that, under low temperature stress, the expression of auxin synthesis genes increased in stamens but decreased in pistils.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFType 2C protein phosphatases (PP2Cs) play key roles in regulating plant senescence and ripening. Here, we discovered a subfamily F PP2C, SlPP2C, associated with leaf senescence through transcriptome analysis. The gene expression, protein accumulation, and promoter activity of SlPP2C all gradually increased along with the progression of leaf and flower senescence and fruit ripening in tomato.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs a valuable medicinal and edible fungus, has been industrialized with broad development prospects. It contains a lot of bioactive compounds that are beneficial to our health. However, during artificial cultivation, strain degeneration is a challenge that inhibits the industrialization utility of .
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