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Table 2 Textural analyses of fresh intact fruits from wild-type (WT) and transgenic lines

From: Functional characterization of a tomato COBRA-likegene functioning in fruit development and ripening

 

Sample

Penetration massa(g) ±SE

Penetration distancea(mm)±SE

Compression massb(kg)±SE

Mature green

WT-1

66.14±7.10

0.31±0.05

13.23±0.45

 

TFM7-OE-4

83.90±5.21*

0.59±0.02**

13.15±0.69

 

TFM7-OE-5

82.42±9.01*

0.51±0.03**

14.43±0.21*

 

TFM7-OE-6

93.84±9.75*

0.65±0.04**

16.08±1.05*

 

TFM7-CS-1

40.62±6.23*

0.29±0.07

10.1±0.75**

 

TFM7-CS-2

41.09±5.67*

0.32±0.04

9.89±0.87**

 

TFM7-CS-3

44.32±8.21*

0.27±0.06

9.14±0.93**

Red ripe

WT-1

50.45±3.05

0.35±0.05

2.38±0.32

 

TFM7-OE-4

68.08±4.21**

0.61±0.07*

3.97±0.22**

 

TFM7-OE-5

64.13±5.65*

0.60±0.05*

4.02±0.54**

 

TFM7-OE-6

65.41±6.93**

0.67±0.09*

4.56±0.26**

 

TFM7-CS-1

27.94±5.91**

0.33±0.07

1.61±0.28*

 

TFM7-CS-2

29.57±4.66**

0.31±0.05

1.59±0.34*

 

TFM7-CS-3

31.81±2.33**

0.39±0.09

2.03±0.59

  1. Texture of fresh intact fruits for wild-type (WT-1) and three independent transgenic overexpressing (TFM7-OE4, 5 and 6) and cosuppressing (TFM7-CS1, 2 and 3) lines was analyzed using TA-XT Plus (Stable Microsystems).
  2. a indicated that penetration analysis of fresh fruits with a 2mm Cylinder Probe (P2/N); Three measurements for each fruit (6 fruit per individual plant) were taken at each stage. Value was showed as mean ±SE (n=18).
  3. b indicated that compression analysis with a 100 mm compression platen (P/100). Value was showed as mean ±SE (n=15).
  4. The significance was calculated by the student’s t test. Asterisks indicated statistical differences to WT (P <0.005** or P <0.05*).