Light regulates tomato fruit metabolome via SlDML2-mediated global DNA demethylation
Zixin Zhang1,2†, Jing Zhang1,3†, Yi Wang1, Yuting Chen1, Qian Hu2, Xin Zhang1, Wen Li1, Yiren Xiao4,5, Ke Zhou6, Yanling Lai1, Dan Su1, Evangelos Tatsis4,5,7, Gaofeng Liu2, Mingchun Liu1, Zhenhui Zhong1 and Yang Zhang1*
1. Key Laboratory of Bio‐resource and Eco‐environment of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
2. College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
3. College of Life Sciences, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China
4. National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
5. Chinese Academy of Sciences‐John Innes Center of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science, Shanghai 200032, China
6. Beijing Key Laboratory of Growth and Developmental Regulation for Protected Vegetable Crops College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
7. School of Breeding and Multiplication, Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya 572025, China
†These authors contributed equally to this work. *Correspondence: Yang Zhang (yang.zhang@scu.edu.cn)
This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFF1001900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32200260), the Chengdu Agricultural Science and Technology Talent Cultivation Project (2023‐CD‐NYKJYC‐1), the Sichuan Science and Technology Program, China (2024NSFSC0036), the Institutional Research Fund of Sichuan University (2020SCUNL106) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (SCU2025D0003).
