Martine Elisa Verhoeyen

TL;DR: Processing of high-flavonol tomatoes demonstrated that 65% of flavonols present in the fresh fruit were retained in the processed paste, supporting their potential as raw materials for tomato-based functional food products, and upregulated flavonol biosynthesis in the tomato in order to generate fruit with increased antioxidant capacity and a wider range of potential health benefit properties.

TL;DR: Changes in the activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase and the enzymes involved in the ascorbate-glutathione cycle during ripening indicated that the antioxidative system plays a fundamental role in the ripening of tomato fruits.

TL;DR: Comparison of flavonoid profiles and gene expression data between tomato leaves and fruit indicates that the absence of anthocyanins in LC/C1 fruit is attributable primarily to an insufficient expression of the gene encoding flavanone-3′5′-hydroxylase, in combination with a strong preference of the tomato dihydroflavonol reductase enzyme to use the Flavonoid reaction product dihydromyricetin as a substrate.

TL;DR: NMR combined with chemometrics and univariate statistics can successfully trace even small differences in metabolite levels between plants and therefore represents a powerful tool to detect potential unintended effects in genetically modified crops.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the unique properties of single-domain antibodies from camelids (camels and llamas) can be correctly targeted to subcellular organelles and inhibit enzyme function in plants more efficiently than antisense approaches.