Bitterness is one of the fruit traits that are most disliked by consumers. In this study, the authors identified and characterized a tonoplast membrane transporter in tomato fruit, which is responsible for the translocation of bitter α-tomatine and other derivatives from the vacuole to the cytoplasm for non-bitter conversion.
- Yana Kazachkova
- Itay Zemach
- Asaph Aharoni
