Fig. 3.

Ripening in RNAi transgenic tomato fruit with suppressed SlNCED1 gene expression. Tomato fruit of transgenic and control fruit were harvested in the different stages cultivated in normal greenhouse conditions. Data include four independent transgenic lines of the T₁ generation. (A) Flower of SLNCED1-RNAi line 11. (B–H) Fruit development and ripening of SlNCED1-RNAi line 11 (30, 35, 38, 40, 42, and 43 DAA). (I–K) Fruit of SlNCED1-RNAi lines 24, 9, and 18, respectively (43 DAA). (L–N) Control fruit (38, 40, and 43 DAA, respectively). (O) Greenhouse environment of SlNCED1-RNAi plants.