Figure 7.

Transcriptional regulation of cuticle metabolism during fruit ripening. Relative gene expression levels of the DEG related to the wax and cutin biosynthesis, and the cuticle-related transcription factors and transporters in the Navelate (white circles) and Pinalate (black squares) mature green (MG), breaker (Bk), colored (C), and full-colored (FC) fruit according to the RNA-Seq data analysis. Values are the means of the log₂ fold change expression levels of three biological replicates per condition. The expression levels for all conditions were expressed in relation to the MG Navelate fruit. Asterisks indicate the statistical differences according to the edgeR statistical test after modeling the normalized RNA-Seq data to a negative binomial distribution.