“…According to previous studies, ectopic expression of MYB ( Xu et al, 2014b ; Wang et al, 2016 ), NAC (NAM, ATAF1, ATAF2, and CUC2; Ge et al, 2017 ), APETALA2/Ethylene Response Factor (AP2/ERF; Zeng et al, 2015 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ), Heat Shock Factor (HSF; Zeng et al, 2016 ), and Homobox from Arabidopsis thaliana (HAT; Xu et al, 2019b ) family members in loquat flesh resulted in changes in the expression of phenylpropanoid pathway genes. For example, the transcripts of Ej4CL1 can be induced by EjERF39 and EjHSF1 or repressed by EjAP2-1 and EjbHLH1, resulting in changes in the lignin content ( Zeng et al, 2015 , 2016 ; Xu et al, 2019b ; Zhang et al, 2020 ). EjNAC3 and EjHAT1 can modify the expression of EjCAD -like and EjCAD5 , respectively ( Ge et al, 2017 ; Xu et al, 2019b ).…”