Plant BiologybioRxivPreprint
Tomato fruit susceptibility to fungal disease can be uncoupled from ripening by suppressing susceptibility factors
C. J. Silva, C. van den Abeele, I. Ortega Salazar…·B. Blanco-Ulate
This study identifies pectate lyase (PL) as a susceptibility factor in tomato fruit ripening, showing that suppressing PL reduces fungal disease susceptibility without affecting defense responses.
DOI 10.1101/2020.06.03.132829