Figure 9.

Translational research: Arabidopsis MYB12 increases tomato flavonol content. Wild-type tomatoes of the Micro-Tom variety are red (top). When an Arabidopsis gene that increases phenolic content is introduced into tomato, the increase in yellow flavonols in the presence of the typical red lycopene results in an orange appearance (bottom). Thus, the gene has a similar impact on this crop plant as was first demonstrated in Arabidopsis. Image modified from Zhang et al. (2015).