TY - JOUR 
A1 - Terol, Javier
AU - Nueda, María J.
AU - Ventimilla, Daniel
AU - Tadeo, Francisco R.
AU - Talón, Manuel
T1 - Transcriptomic analysis of Citrus clementina mandarin fruits maturation reveals a MADS-box transcription factor that might be involved in the regulation of earliness
Y1 - 2019
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6158
AB - We used RNA-Seq technology to carry out a time course analysis of the transcriptome of the 3 mutations along the ripening period. The results indicated that in these mutants, earliness and lateness during fruit ripening correlated with the advancement or delay in the expression of a set of genes that may be implicated in the maturation process. A detailed analysis of the transcription factors known to be involved in the regulation of fruit ripening identified a member of the MADS box family whose expression was lower in ARR, the early-ripening mutant, and higher in HER, the late-ripening mutant. The pattern of expression of this gene during the maturation period was basically contrary to those of the ethylene biosynthetic genes, SAM and ACC synthases and ACC oxidase. The gene was present in hemizygous dose in the early-ripening mutant.
Conclusions

Our analysis provides new clues about the genetic control of fruit ripening in citrus and allowed the identification of a transcription factor that could be involved in the early phenotype.
KW - RNA-Seq
KW - Lateness
KW - MADS box
KW - F30  Plant genetics and breeding
KW - Ripening
KW - Citrus fruits
KW - Earliness
KW - Transcription factors
LA - en_US
PB - Springer
ER -