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Here, we report that moderate water deficit simultaneously elevates the contents of \u03b1\u2010carotene, \u03b2\u2010carotene, lutein, lycopene, soluble solids, soluble protein, and ascorbic acid in tomato (\n                    <jats:italic>Solanum lycopersicum<\/jats:italic>\n                    L.) fruits, with no significant reduction in fruit yield under our experimental conditions. Through transcriptome analysis and RT\u2010qPCR, we identified\n                    <jats:italic>SlNAP2<\/jats:italic>\n                    as a central transcription factor regulating this process. Moderate water deficit upregulates\n                    <jats:italic>SlNAP2<\/jats:italic>\n                    expression. Knockout of\n                    <jats:italic>SlNAP2<\/jats:italic>\n                    significantly reduces fruit nutritional quality, whereas its overexpression enhances it under moderate water deficit. Importantly, moderate water deficit promotes the improvement of tomato fruit nutritional quality in a SlNAP2\u2010dependent manner. We further demonstrate that SlNAP2 directly binds to and activates the promoters of key lycopene biosynthesis genes (\n                    <jats:italic>SlPSY2<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>SlPDS<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>SlZDS<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) and ascorbic acid biosynthesis genes (\n                    <jats:italic>SlGMP<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>SlGGP<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), and that moderate water deficit enhances this transcriptional activation. Functional analyses further support the role of these five genes as downstream effectors that mediate SlNAP2\u2010dependent lycopene and ascorbic acid accumulation. Collectively, our findings reveal that moderate water deficit enhances tomato fruit nutritional quality by boosting SlNAP2\u2010mediated transcriptional activation of lycopene and ascorbate biosynthesis, establishing SlNAP2 as a central regulator linking water deficit to fruit quality and providing mechanistic insights into stress\u2010promoted metabolite accumulation.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/pce.70979","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,14]],"date-time":"2026-10-14T08:13:11Z","timestamp":1791965591000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Moderate Water Deficit Improves Tomato Fruit Nutritional Quality Through SlNAP2\u2010Mediated Transcriptional Activation of Lycopene and Ascorbic Acid Biosynthesis Genes"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"given":"Yuanyuan","family":"Kong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Horticulture Gansu Agricultural University Lanzhou China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aiyin","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Horticulture Gansu Agricultural University Lanzhou China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xuemei","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Horticulture Gansu Agricultural University Lanzhou China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7404-2145","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weibiao","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Horticulture Gansu Agricultural University Lanzhou China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"395","DOI":"10.1007\/s00122-015-2635-5","article-title":"Genotype by Watering Regime Interaction in Cultivated Tomato: Lessons From Linkage Mapping and Gene Expression","volume":"129","author":"Albert E.","year":"2016","journal-title":"Theoretical and Applied Genetics"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1093\/plphys\/kiaf291","article-title":"A Comprehensive Model of Tomato Fruit Ripening Regulation by the Transcription Factors NOR\u2010like1, NAC\u2010NOR, and MADS\u2010RIN","volume":"198","author":"Aprilyanto V.","year":"2025","journal-title":"Plant Physiology"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"255","DOI":"10.1111\/nph.17283","article-title":"Several Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Synthase Isoforms Supply Metabolic Substrates for Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Tomato","volume":"231","author":"Barja M. 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