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Acta Horticulturae Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (12): 3219-3228.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2025-0124

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Mapping of Genes Regulating Tomato Fruit Skin Toughness

QI Yujie1, ZHAO Shiqi1, SUN Shuai1, WANG Haijing1, CUI Xia1,2,*(), LI Ren1,*()   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biobreeding,Institute of Vegetables and Flowers,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Beijing 100081,China
    2 Zhejiang A & F University,Linan,Zhejiang 311300,China
  • Received:2025-04-02 Revised:2025-05-08 Online:2025-12-25 Published:2025-12-20
  • Contact: CUI Xia, LI Ren

Abstract:

Fruit firmness is an important quality trait that directly affects the fruit cracking and storability. Skin toughness and compression resistance are key indicators for evaluating fruit firmness. In this study,we found that although processing tomato TS292 and large-fruited tomato TS12 showed no significant difference in compression resistance. However,TS292 fruits exhibited significantly enhanced skin toughness. Histological and metabolomic analyses demonstrated that TS292 possesses a thicker cuticle layer with elevated cutin and wax content in the red fruit pericarp,potentially constituting the primary determinant of its superior skin toughness. To clone key genes regulating fruit skin toughness,we established a recombinant inbred line(RIL)population derived from TS12 × TS292 crosses as a mapping population. Four QTLs control the skin toughness were identified by using Bulked Segregant Analysis(BSA)method. Among these,a major QTL located at the chromosome 7,contributed 30.12% variation of fruit skin toughness. Further genetic analysis narrowed the QTL-FIS3 into a 295 kb region including 16 genes.

Key words: tomato, fruit firmness, skin toughness, cutin, wax