Identification of heat induced proteins in young tomato flower buds

Tomato flowering and fruit set require an optimal temperature of 25/22 ± 2˚C (day/night). When the air temperature reaches to above the optimal range (higher than 30/26˚C; day/night), only a small number of flower buds would develop into mature flowers and produce a reduced number of pollen. This project used the iodoTMT proteomics analysis method to identify heat-induced proteomes in these tomato flower buds.