Plum tomatoes have less juice than other varieties, and a high flesh content, which makes the sauce is thick, not watery.
Differences are also noticed in the morphological features of RC1, RC2 and RC5 regarding the colour, fruit shape, fruit taste, flesh content, presence or absence of thorns.
Poultry feeds have high content of proteinaceous substances that produce bigger chicken with more flesh content.
It has been demonstrated earlier that LC-PUFA flesh content is a highly heritable trait [ 7], but the present study has shown that the underlying mechanisms do not appear to involve changes in the expression of lipid metabolism genes, including the LC-PUFA biosynthesis pathway.
Employing stringent statistical analysis no lipid metabolism genes were detected as being significantly altered in liver when comparing families with high and low n-3 LC-PUFA flesh contents.
The LC-PUFA biosynthesis pathway was not identified by the microarray analysis as being differentially expressed in families with different n-3 LC-PUFA flesh contents but, given the potential importance of this pathway in determining n-3 PUFA phenotypes, we specifically aimed to verify this result.
Traits measuring fruit size, shape, texture, firmness, rind and flesh color, sugar content and acidity were analyzed.
Fruit shape, soluble sugar content and flesh color showed no differences between the G194D mutant line and the wild type control (Figure 2H J).
Previous studies have performed GWA analyses to identify genetic variants associated with complex traits such as flesh texture, fat content and sexual maturation by using a ~ 6 K SNP array in farmed Atlantic salmon [ 7, 9].
As predicted, plants homozygous for the G194D mutation presented an increased duration between the pollination and the fruit ripening, a better fruit firmness and a delayed fruit yellowing without any changes in fruit shape, peduncle abscission layer, soluble sugar content and flesh color.
