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Overhead supplemental far-red light stimulates tomato growth under intra-canopy lighting with LEDs
ZHANG Ya-ting, ZHANG Yu-qi, YANG Qi-chang, LI Tao
2019, 18 (1): 62-69.   DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(18)62130-6
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Far-red (FR) light regulates phytochrome-mediated morphological and physiological plant responses.  This study aims to investigate how greenhouse tomato morphology and production response to different durations of FR light during daytime and at the end of day (EOD).  High-wire tomato plants were grown under intra-canopy lighting consisting of red (peak wavelength at 640 nm) and blue (peak wavelength at 450 nm) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) of 144 μmol m–2 s–1 at 10 cm away from the lamps, and combined with overhead supplemental FR light (peak wavelength at 735 nm) with PPFD of 43 μmol m–2 s–1 at 20 cm below the lamps.  Plants were exposed to three durations of FR supplemental lighting including: 06:00–18:00 (FR12), 18:00–19:30 (EOD-FR1.5), 18:00–18:30 (EOD-FR0.5), and control that without supplemental FR light.  The results showed that supplemental FR light significantly stimulated stem elongation thereby resulting in longer plants compared with the control.  Moreover, FR light altered leaf morphology toward higher leaf length/width ratio and larger leaf area.  The altered plant architecture in FR supplemented plants led to a more homogeneous light distribution inside the canopy.  Total plant biomass was increased by 9–16% under supplemental FR light in comparison with control, which led to 7–12% increase in ripe fruit yield.  Soluble sugar content of the ripe tomato fruit was slightly decreased by longer exposure of the plants to FR light.  Dry matter partitioning to different plant organs were not substantially affected by the FR light treatments.  No significant differences were observed among the three FR light treatments in plant morphology as well as yield and biomass production.  We conclude that under intra-canopy lighting, overhead supplemental FR light stimulates tomato growth and production.  And supplementary of EOD-FR0.5 is more favorable, as it consumes less electricity but induces similar effects on plant morphology and yield.
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Functional prediction of tomato PLATZ family members and functional verification of SlPLATZ17
XU Min, GAO Zhao, LI Da-long, ZHANG Chen, ZHANG Yu-qi, HE Qian, QI Ying-bin, ZHANG He, JIANG Jing-bin, XU Xiang-yang, ZHAO Ting-ting
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2023.08.003 Online: 03 August 2023
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PLATZ is a novel zinc finger DNA-binding protein that plays an important role in regulating plant growth and development and resisting abiotic stress. However, there has been very little research on the function of this family gene in tomatoes, which limits its application in germplasm resource improvement. Therefore, the PLATZ gene family was identified and analyzed in tomato, and its roles were predicted and verified to provide a basis for in-depth research on SlPLATZ gene function. In this study, the PLATZ family members of tomato were identified in the whole genome, and 19 SlPLATZ genes were obtained. Functional prediction was conducted based on gene and promoter structure analysis and RNA-seq-based expression pattern analysis. SlPLATZ genes that responded significantly under different abiotic stresses or were significantly differentially expressed among multiple tissues were screened as functional gene resources. SlPLATZ17 was selected for functional verification by experiment-based analysis. The results showed that the downregulation of SlPLATZ17 gene expression reduced the drought and salt tolerance of tomato plants. Tomato plants overexpressing SlPLATZ17 had larger flower sizes and long, thin petals, adjacent petals were not connected at the base, and the stamen circumference was smaller. This study contributes to understanding the functions of the SlPLATZ family in tomato and provides a reference for functional gene screening.

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