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Fruit ripening is regulated by epigenetic modifications and transcription factors, which may function independently or as protein complexes. Our previous study showed that the apple histone deacetylase19 (MdHDA19) suppresses fruit ripening through the deacetylation of histones in related genes. Here, a MADS-box transcription factor (MdMADS6) was identified using a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) assay as a candidate protein that interacts with MdHDA19 during apple fruit ripening. Furthermore, Y2H, bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) and pull-down assays were used to confirm the interaction between MdHDA19 and MdMADS6. Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation and yeast one-hybrid assays showed that MdMADS6 promoted carotenoid accumulation in apple fruit by acting on the downstream target genes related to carotenoid biosynthesis. In summary, we conclude that, in the early stages of fruit development, the expression of MdMADS6 was maintained at lower levels, where it interacted with MdHDA19 to form a protein complex that inhibited the expression of the downstream genes. At the late stages of fruit development, active expression of MdMADS6 dissociated the protein complex of MdMADS6 and MdHDA19 and consequently promoted the expression of carotenoid biosynthesis genes as well as carotenoid accumulation.

MdMADS6 Recruits Histone Deacetylase MdHDA19 to Repress the Expression of the Carotenoid Synthesis-Related Gene MdCCD1 during Fruit Ripening