Genes and their use to increase lycopene in tomato fruit

摘要

The present invention provides a tomato gene, silic 09g005730.The nucleotide sequence of the coding protein of this gene is shown in sequence number 1.The present invention further provides the use of the tomato gene siolyc 09g005730 to effectively increase the lycopene content of the fruit by knocking out the mutant gene Solic 009 g005730 in tomato.The present invention further provides a method of knocking out a mutant gene, Solc 09g005730, in tomato. The method of the present invention is used to effectively increase the content of lycopene in tomato fruit.Diagram