Manipulation of carotenoid metabolism stimulates biomass and stress tolerance in tomato

We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Lothar Willmitzer for his support and advice. We thank Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant physiology, Golm, Germany) and Dr. Caterina D’Ambrosio (Centro Ricerche Metapontum Agrobios, ALSIA, Italy) for kindly providing the transplastomic pNLyc#2 and LCe seeds and the homozygous nuclear High Caro (H.C.) lines, respectively. We thank Dr. Camila Caldana and Anne Michaelis for providing the GC facility and running the GC samples, respectively, and Maria Rosa Rodriguez-Goberna for technical support related with pigment analysis (supported by grant BIO2017-84041-P from the Spanish AEI). In addition, we thank Hana Martinkova and Petra Amakorova for their help with phytohormone analyses. The hormonomics work was funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (European Regional Development Fund-Project “Plants as a tool for sustainable global development” No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000827), and the Internal Grant Agency of Palacký University (IGA_PrF_2021_011)