Abstract: Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) has high nutritional value and is deeply loved by consumers. At present, tomato has become one of the widely planted cash crops. Ethylene response factor (ERF) is a kind of plant-specific transcription factor. ERF plays an important role in a variety of physiological processes, such as plant morphogenesis, stress response, maturation and senescence, hormone signal transduction and metabolite regulation. In this paper, taking the SlERF-H6(LOC101259323) gene of tomato as the research object, the specific region silencing sequence of SlERF-H6 gene was obtained by analyzing the sequence of SlERF-H6 gene. The virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) vector of tomato SlERF-H6 was successfully constructed by homologous recombination technique. The purpose of this study is to provide a reference for further exploring the role of tomato SlERF-H6 gene in fruit ripening.
Keywords: tomato(Solanum lycopersicum); virus-induced gene silencing(VIGS); SlERF-H6 gene; homologous recombination; vector construction