Front. Plant Sci. Frontiers in Plant Science Front. Plant Sci. 1664-462X Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpls.2026.1798850 Correction Correction: Functional phytochemicals in tomatoes: biosynthesis, gene regulation, and human health implications ElShameyEssam 1 2 * Writing – original draft Conceptualization Visualization Investigation Supervision Writing – review & editing Validation ZengYawen 1 Supervision Visualization Data curation Writing – review & editing Resources Validation Investigation DingYumei 3 Project administration Data curation Conceptualization Validation Writing – original draft Software Resources YangJiazhen 1 * Formal analysis Data curation Methodology Visualization Funding acquisition Writing – original draft Investigation Biotechnology and Germplasm Resources Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China Rice Research Department, Field Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt College of Food Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China Correspondence: Essam ElShamey, essamelshamey@gmail.com; Jiazhen Yang, 2119296493@qq.com 24 02 2026 2026 17 1798850 29 01 2026 05 02 2026 Copyright © 2026 ElShamey, Zeng, Ding and Yang. 2026 ElShamey, Zeng, Ding and Yang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Correction on Functional phytochemicals in tomatoes: biosynthesis, gene regulation, and human health implications By ElShamey E, Zeng Y, Ding Y and Yang J (2025) Front. Plant Sci. 16:1662388. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1662388 tomato functional components biosynthesis pathways gene regulation health benefits carotenoids flavonoids section-at-acceptance Plant Nutrition

There was a mistake in the caption of Figure 4 as published. The citation “(Mellidou et al., 2021)” was omitted. The caption of Figure 4 has been updated to “Figure 4. Schematic biosynthesis pathways for vitamin C in tomato fruits (Mellidou et al., 2021)”.

The reference “Mellidou, I., Koukounaras, A., Kostas, S., Patelou, E., and Kanellis, A. K. (2021). Regulation of vitamin C accumulation for improved tomato fruit quality and alleviation of abiotic stress. Genes. 12, 694. doi: 10.3390/genes12050694” which was omitted from the published version of the article, has now been added to the reference list.

The original version of this article has been updated.

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