Table 1.

Mutations associated with defects in fruit maturation and ripening.

Tomato fruit mutants
Mutant	Phenotype/tissues affected	Reference	Gene product
tag	Flower meristem and inner whorl fate determination	Pnueli et al. (1994), Pan et al. (2010)	MADS-box transcription factor
tagl1	Chlorophyll and carotenoid accumulation	Vrebalov et al. (2009), Giménez et al. (2010), Pan et al. (2010)	MADS-box transcription factor
	Plastids present in the collenchyma of the exocarp
rin	Ripening delay	Vrebalov et al. (2002)	MADS-box transcription factor
mc	Sepal development	Vrebalov et al. (2009)	MADS-box transcription factor
j	Abscission zone formation	Szymkowiak and Irish (1999), Mao et al. (2000)	MADS-box transcription factor
Nr	Ripening delay	Lanahan et al. (1994), Yen et al. (1995)	Ethylene receptor
CNR	Ripening delay	Manning et al. (2006)	SBP transcription factor
AP2a	Regulation of carotenoid and chlorophyll metabolism	Chung et al. (2010), Karlova et al. (2011)	AP2 transcription factor
slarf7 (RNAi)	Parthenocarpy	de Jong et al. (2009)	Auxin-responsive factor 7
gr	Ripening delay	Barry and Giovannoni (2006)	RTE-like proteins