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426which suppress ethylene biosynthesis, stimulatethe activity of antioxidant enzymes and regulatethe expression of age-related genes.Tomato is a suitable system for studyingunique biological phenomena not harbored byArabidopsis (Okabe et al., 2011). As Me et al.(2007) noticed, in molecular technologies,using molecular markers in plants breedingprograms is a common procedure. Unfortunately,gene modification techniques introducedinto tomato crop improvement, greatly alteredtomato variety characteristics. Studies performedby Rodríguez et al. (2011) emphasized thatpolymorphic polipeptides from fruit pericarpassociated with quality fruits traits and fruitshelf life can be such useful tomato breedingprograms, as protein molecular markers.The tomato genome was entirely sequenced byThe International Solanaceae Genomics Project(SOL), and many of the gene sequences can beretrieved from databases (Mueller et al., 2009).Also, recently (2012) The Tomato GenomeConsortium presented a high-quality genomesequence of domesticated tomato, a draftsequence of its closest wild relative, Solanumpimpinellifolium,and compared them to eachother and to the potato genome (Solanumtuberosum).Although the tomato is completedsequenced, its genomic resources have not beenfully exploited. Few studies have reported thedetection of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) usingsimple sequence repeat (SSR) markers for fruitquality traits in tomato, in the recent studiescarried out by Yogendra and Gowda (2013).Xu et al. (2013) presented a complete analysisof the RNA helicases (a class of molecularmotor proteins) gene family, including thechromosomal locations, phylogenetic tree, andgene structure analysis and expression profileunder various growth conditions.Twenty years ago Klee (1993) noticed thatbiochemical analysis of transgenic tomato fruitsline expressing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylicacid (ACC) deaminase enzyme emphasizedno significant differences from controls inthe levels of ACC oxidase or polygalacturonase.Also, transgenic fruit were significantlyfirmer than the control, so, the author conclusionwas that other enzymes may have asignificant role in fruit softening. Meli et al.(2010) identified and targeted two ripeningspecificN-glycoprotein modifying enzymes (amannosidase(a-Man) and ß-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase(ß-Hex) and also demonstrated thatgenetic manipulation of N-glycan processingcan be of strategic importance to enhance fruitshelf life, without any negative effect onphenotype, including yield.To accelerate functional genomic research intomato, Okabe et al. (2011) developed a Micro-Tom TILLING (Targeting Induced LocalLesions In Genomes) platform and to be usedfor efficient mutant isolation, six ethylene receptorgenes in tomato (SlETR1–SlETR6) werescreened. The identification of two novel Sletr1mutant alleles that are distinguished by thelevel of ethylene sensitivity and the characterizationof their associated phenotypes couldprovide insight into the ethylene-mediated fruitripening mechanism in tomato.Behboodian et al. (2012) were employed RNAinterference (RNAi) technology to silence thegenes involved in ethylene biosyntheticpathway, by blocking the expression of specificgene encoding the ACC oxidase. The obtainedresults has successfully demonstrated that severaltransgenic lines of lowland tomato cv. MT1,harboring an hpRNA-ACO1 (ACC oxidase)construct, showed lower ethylene productionbecause the transgenic fruits displayed delayedpost-harvest life with no phenotypic changesand similar amounts of soluble solids content,titratable acidity and ascorbic acid as comparedto wild type fruits. They proposed that,hpRNAi ACO1 could effectively be used todelay post-harvest damage, especially inclimacteric fruits.Research carried out by Xie et al. (2006) emphasizedthat Virus-induced gene silencing(VIGS) technology combined with vacuuminfiltration can silence LeACS2 gene functionfor a certain time and is an efficient way topostpone the post-harvest senescence of tomatofruit. In the same time, vacuum infiltration is aneasy and inexpensive method at room temperature,so, a potential method to maintain thequality of detached tomato fruit. The syringeinfiltration method of VIGS [tobacco rattlevirus (TRV)-LeRIN: the transcription factorRIN (Ripening Inhibitor) belongs to the MADSbox family and regulates tomato ripening] wassuccessfully applied to silence the LeRIN,LeACS2, LeACS4 and LeACO1 genes in tomatofruits. There were identified also, the target genes

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