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KaLai Lam Cheng
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 3
Citations - 401
KaLai Lam Cheng is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ripening & Solanum. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 267 citations. Previous affiliations of KaLai Lam Cheng include University of California.
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Uniform ripening encodes a Golden 2-like transcription factor regulating tomato fruit chloroplast development.
Ann L. T. Powell,Cuong V. Nguyen,Theresa Hill,KaLai Lam Cheng,Rosa Figueroa-Balderas,Hakan Aktas,Hamid Ashrafi,Clara Pons,Rafael Fernández-Muñoz,Ariel Roberto Vicente,Ariel Roberto Vicente,Javier Lopez-Baltazar,Cornelius S. Barry,Yongsheng Liu,Roger T. Chetelat,Antonio Granell,Allen Van Deynze,James J. Giovannoni,James J. Giovannoni,Alan B. Bennett +19 more
TL;DR: In tomato, two Golden 2-like (GLK) transcription factors are expressed in leaves, but only SlGLK2 is expressed in fruit, which influences photosynthesis in developing fruit, contributing to mature fruit characteristics and suggesting that selection of u inadvertently compromised ripe fruit quality in exchange for desirable production traits as discussed by the authors.
Supplementary Material for Uniform ripening Encodes a Golden 2-like Transcription Factor Regulating Tomato Fruit Chloroplast Development
Ann L. T. Powell,Cuong V. Nguyen,Theresa A. Hill,KaLai Lam Cheng,Hakan Aktas,Hamid Ashrafi,Clara Pons,Rafael Fernández-Muñoz,Javier Lopez-Baltazar,Cornelius S. Barry,Yongsheng Liu,Roger T. Chetelat,Antonio Granell,James Giovannoni,Alan B. Bennett +14 more
TL;DR: The uniform ripening mutation turns out to disable a transcription factor called Golden 2-like (GLK2), which increases the fruit's photosynthetic capacity, resulting in higher sugar content and suggesting that selection of u inadvertently compromised ripe fruit quality in exchange for desirable production traits.
Patent
GLK genes for improved fruit quality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed methods for improving fruit quality in plants that have low or reduced levels of Golden2-like (GLK) activity in the green fruit (e.g., cultivated tomato).