Transcriptional profiling was performed using the TOM2 long oligonucleotide
array platform consisting of 12,000 unigene sequences(www.ted.bti.
cornell.edu). Biological replication for transcriptome analysis was created
using a minimum population of six plants per genotype further sorted into
pairs of plants. From each plant within a given pair, three fruit were
collected and pooled to generate a biological replicate of six pooled fruit. A
minimum of three such pools were generated for each genotype from fruit
harvested at the mature green, breaker, and ripe stages. Pericarp tissue
(including the peel) was prepared from fruit using a freezer mill as
described earlier. The expression profiling experiments were designed
for thecomparison of each DET1transgenic genotype at each fruit stage to
the respective T56 fruit stage as the control. Data were generated from a
minimum of three biological replicates, each with a duplicate dye swap
and creating a total of between six and eight hybridizations.ฃ