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This study identifies RALF signaling as a regulator of thermotolerant pollen tube growth in tomato, showing that RALF peptides repress germination at normal temperatures but are antagonized by heat stress.

The paper introduces TubeTracker, a semi-automated tool for analyzing pollen performance parameters, and validates its accuracy in tomato cultivars.

This study identifies how enhanced pollen tube growth under high temperature contributes to thermotolerant fruit production in tomato by analyzing transcriptomic responses and key molecular mechanisms.