Patent ID: 7928298
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: C07H,C12N,C12Y

Abstract:
1. A mutated tomato plant that produces a tomato fruit comprising at least one fruit polygalacturonase gene, wherein: a) the tomato fruit has reduced fruit polygalacturonase enzyme activity that is less than 40% of the fruit polygalacturonase enzyme activity of a tomato fruit produced by a non-mutated wild type tomato plant; b) the reduced fruit polygalacturonase enzyme activity is caused by a human-induced non-transgenic mutation in the fruit polygalacturonase gene of the tomato fruit of the mutated tomato plant, wherein the mutation correlates with a change from glycine to arginine at amino acid 178 of SEQ ID NO: 2; and c) the tomato fruit of the mutated tomato plant softens more slowly than the tomato fruit produced by the non-mutated wild type tomato plant.