Sellitto, Sereno (2015) Biotechnological approaches to increase drought tolerance and nutritional quality in tomato. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Item Type: | Tesi di dottorato |
|---|---|
| Resource language: | English |
| Title: | Biotechnological approaches to increase drought tolerance and nutritional quality in tomato |
| Creators: | Creators Email Sellitto, Sereno sereno.sellitto@unina.it |
| Date: | 31 March 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 206 |
| Institution: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: | Agraria |
| Scuola di dottorato: | Scienze agrarie e agroalimentari |
| Dottorato: | Scienze delle risorse ambientali |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 27 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Rao, Maria Antonietta mariarao@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Di Matteo, Antonio UNSPECIFIED Cartes, Paula UNSPECIFIED |
| Date: | 31 March 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 206 |
| Keywords: | Tomato; drought stress; antioxidants; wild QTLs; transcriptomics |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 07 - Scienze agrarie e veterinarie > AGR/07 - Genetica agraria |
| Aree tematiche (7° programma Quadro): | BIOTECNOLOGIE, PRODOTTI ALIMENTARI E AGRICOLTURA > Produzione sostenibile e gestione delle risorse biologiche della terra, della foresta e dell'ambiente acquatico |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2015 17:02 |
| Last Modified: | 08 May 2016 01:00 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/10421 |
| DOI: | 10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/10421 |
Collection description
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) belongs to the nightshade family Solanaceae. The goals of public and private tomato breeding programs are focusing on nutritional quality currently. Tomatoes represent a major contribution to nutrition worldwide and a reservoir of diverse antioxidant molecules, such as ascorbic acid, vitamin E, carotenoids, flavonoids and phenolic acids. Among abiotic stresses, drought is by far the leading environmental stress in agriculture, most crop plants, including tomato, are sensitive to drought stress (DS) throughout the ontogeny of the plant, from seed germination to harvest. Substantial genetic variation for Drought Tolerance (DT) exists within the cultivated tomato, as well as in its related wild species. This study was carried out to identify genomic regions involved in the control of fruit quality traits in tomato, headed to select new genotypes fitting the increasingly high public demand for a sustainable agriculture asking for limited levels of energy inputs, such as mainly the water supply. We identified Quantitative Trait Loci leading (QTLs) to an higher fruit nutritional quality and to an increased drought tolerance. The transcriptomic analysis allowed us to identify candidate genes involved in the pathway of main secondary metabolites. We developed a breeding program to transfer wild dissected QTLs controlling quality traits, such as the content in soluble solids and AsA into advanced breeding tomato lines selected for displaying high agronomic performances.
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