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Noncoding RNAs: functional regulatory factors in tomato fruit ripening

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Tomato has emerged as the model system for investigations into the regulation of fleshy-fruit ripening and senescence, and the ripening process involving the coordinated regulation at the gene/chromatin/epigenetic, transcriptional, post-transcriptional and protein levels. Noncoding RNAs play important roles in fruit ripening as important transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory factors. In this review, we systematically summarize the recent advances in the regulation of tomato fruit ripening involved in ethylene biosynthesis and signal transduction, fruit pigment accumulation, fruit flavor and aroma, fruit texture by noncoding RNAs and their coordinate regulatory network model were set up and also suggest future directions for the functional regulations of noncoding RNAs on tomato fruit ripening.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31772022 and 31822046), the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing (6182016), The Program of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Committee (Z191100004019010 and Z191100008619004), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0400200), the Young Investigator Fund of Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (202016), Special innovation ability construction fund of Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (20180404, 20180705 and 20200427), the China Agriculture Research System Project (CARS-23), the Collaborative innovation center of Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (KJCX201915), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province for Distinguished Young Scholar (LR19C150001).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Vegetable Postharvest Processing, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing Key Laboratory of Fruits and Vegetable Storage and Processing, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China) of Ministry of Agriculture, Key Laboratory of Urban Agriculture (North) of Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097, China

    Lili Ma, Lipu Gao, Xiaoyan Zhao, Qing Wang & Jinhua Zuo

  2. College of Food Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, 071001, China

    Lili Ma & Jianlou Mu

  3. School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK

    Donald Grierson

  4. Beijing Academy of Forestry and Pomology Sciences, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

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  5. Laboratory of Postharvest Molecular Biology of Fruits and Vegetables, Department of Food Biotechnology, College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China

    Benzhong Zhu & Yunbo Luo

  6. Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Kai Shi

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JZ, KS and QW conceived and designed the review, LM, JM and JZ wrote the review, DG, YW, LG, XZ, BZ and YL collected the related data and revised the review.

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Ma, L., Mu, J., Grierson, D. et al. Noncoding RNAs: functional regulatory factors in tomato fruit ripening. Theor Appl Genet 133, 1753–1762 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-020-03582-4

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