Constitutive expression of <i>SlMX1</i> gene improves fruit yield and quality, health-promoting compounds, fungal resistance and delays ripening in transgenic tomato plants

Tomato is one of the major economically domesticated crops, and it extensively used in different ways purposes worldwide. Cell metabolism central core all biological processes to sustain life including cell growth, differentiation, maintenance, response environmental stress. To evaluate how genetic engineering can improve tomato fruit metabolome, transcriptomic metabolomic datasets two transgenic tomatoes (SlMX1 overexpression RNAi lines) have been compared with wild-type. The combined results demonstrated that constitutive expression SlMX1 not only increased trichome formation, carotenoids, terpenoids as has stated several studies, but also up- down-regulated multiple genes related growth (cell wall turnover), primary (carbohydrates, vitamins, phytohormones), secondary (phenylpropanoids, terpenoids) metabolism, signaling, stress responses. These changes gene due promote most important agroeconomic traits such yield quality, biosynthesis health-promoting phytochemicals (including phenolic acids, flavonoids, anthocyanins), finally, activate resistance Botrytis cinerea repress over-ripening-related genes, thus extending shelf-life. In conclusion, improvement achieved by be harnessed molecular breeding programs engineer size yield, induce metabolites, fungal resistance, finally extend