Fig. 7.

DEGs related to sucrose metabolism. a 20 DAA DEGs placed on metabolic pathways leading to sucrose accumulation in melon fruit; sucrose synthase (a) and sucrose-p-synthase (b) leading to sucrose accumulation are up-regulated in the ‘green’ bulk (green letters) while acid invertase (c) and fructokinase (d), leading to turnover of sucrose and sucrose precursors are up-regulated in the ‘orange’ bulk (orange letters). Unmarked arrows indicate genes with similar expression levels in the ‘orange’ and the ‘green’ bulks. This schematic pathway was modified after [33]. Glc-glucose, gal- galactose, fru-fructose, suc-sucrose, P-phosphate; (b) Expression pattern of the four DEGs marked in A during fruit development (10, 20, 30 DAA and mature fruit). The genes IDs are (https://melonomics.net): a MELO3C015552, b MELO3C010300, c MELO3C005363, and d MELO3C014574