A NEW GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE PROTEIN AND ITS ROLE IN THE METABOLISM OF PHENYLPROPANOID VOLATILES IN TOMATO

摘要

The present invention relates to a protein and/or a nucleic acid encoding such a protein that is responsible for providing tomato with a lack of fruit smoky flavour phenotype. Also part of the invention are methods for marker-assisted breeding tomato plants either having or lacking the gene or allele encoding for said protein, thereby providing respectively the absence or the presence of the smoky flavour phenotype.