In a field experiments to improve tomato fruit setting I applied inter cropping of tomato with corn and sun flower and Auxins. The tomato of auxins was off flavour, large and low bulk densities to a degree of fruit floating on water
They probably enter glucose metabolism cycle and produce new metabolites resulting new flavour.
A relationship between the expression of some Auxin responsive factors (ARFs) and sugar metabolism in tomato fruit has been already reported. You can start reading this paper:
SlARF4, an Auxin Response Factor Involved in the Control of Sugar Metabolism during Tomato Fruit Development (2013)(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3585602/) Particularly, this paper states: "Altogether, the data uncover the involvement of ARFs in the control of sugar content, an essential feature of fruit quality, and provide insight into the link between auxin signaling, chloroplastic activity, and sugar metabolism in developing fruit."
Some other related papers:
The Aux/IAA, Sl-IAA17 regulates quality parameters over tomato fruit development (2015) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4883969/)
Comprehensive RNA-Seq Analysis on the Regulation of Tomato Ripening by Exogenous Auxin (2016) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881990/)
Dear Colleagues Batoul Bahrami and Gustavo Acevedo-Hernandez Esq.
We applied Auxins in order to improve fruit setting under high temperature stress. This Auxin induces parthenocarpy.... thats mean seedless produced tomato fruits. It is well established that fertilization followed by embryo, which acts as new apical dominance and sink source to assimilate ..... furnishing a healthy well developed placenta of well performed jelly. Jelly and seeds improved the weight and flavour, and thus seedless tomato fruits being off flavaour and light weigh. .
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