Heat C Salt Sus-C Sus-T Tol-C Tol-T Sus-C Sus-T Tol-C Tol-T Drought Les.3702.1.A1_at Les.5442.1.S1_at Les.4087.1.S1_at Les.4095.1.S1_at LesAffx.67531.1.S1_at Les.3703.1.A1_at Les.3706.1.A1_at LesAffx.58084.1.S1_at LesAffx.3360.2.A1_at Supplementary Fig. S1: Hierarchical clustering of AUX/IAA genes, showing significant differential expression under at least one abiotic stress condition. The fold change values in treated sample as compared to its corresponding mock-treated control sample were used for clustering. The gene probe-set IDs are on the left of the heat map while the gene names are presented on the right. The color bar present below represents the range of log2 signal for heat map. C, control; Salt, salt stress; Sus-C, susceptible-control; Sus-T, susceptible-treated; Tol-C; tolerantcontrol; Tol-T; tolerant-treated. RR MG Healthy Wounded B. cinerea Healthy Wounded B. cinerea Control C. coccodes MG Les.1298.1.S1_at Les.4087.1.S1_at Les.4095.1.S1_at Les.5442.1.S1_at Les.3702.1.A1_at LesAffx.58084.1.S1_at Supplementary Fig. S2: Hierarchical clustering of AUX/IAA genes showing significant differential expression under at least biotic stress condition is shown. The fold change values in treated sample as compared to its corresponding mock-treated control sample were used for clustering. The gene probe-set IDs are on the left of the heat map while the gene names are presented on the right. The color bar present below represents the range of log2 signal for heat map. B. cinerea, Botrytis cinerea inoculated; C. coccodes; Colletotrichum coccodes inoculated. Pusa Ruby R HYP COT 3rd L L-3W L-5W MG B B+3 B+5 B+20 MicroTom Les.1298.1.S1_at Les.256.1.A1_at Les.4097.1.S1_at Les.3701.1.A1_at Les.3707.1.A1_at Les.3705.1.A1_at LesAffx.3360.2.A1_at Les.3703.1.A1_at Les.3706.1.A1_at Les.3702.1.A1_at LesAffx.58084.1.S1_at Les.4095.1.S1_at Les.4087.1.S1_at Les.5442.1.S1_at LesAffx.67531.1.S1_at Supplementary Fig. S3: Expression profiles of SlIAAs in tomato development in various tissues and developmental stages in MicroTom and Pusa Ruby. The expression profiles of SlIAA genes in different tissues and stages of tomato development was analyzed by using normalized GC-RMA signal intensities generated in microarray experiments. The gene probe-set IDs are on the left of the heat map while the gene names are presented on the right. The color bar present below represents the range of log2 signal for heat map. R, root; HYP, hypocotyl; COT, cotyledon; 3rd L, third leaf; L3W, 3-week old leaf; L-5W, 5-week old leaf; MG, mature green; B, breaker; B+3 days old fruit, breaker+3 days old fruit; B+5; breaker+5 days old fruit; Breaker+20 days old fruit, breaker+ 20 days old fruit. 3000 Relative transcript abundance 12 SlIAA1 2500 120 SlIAA2 10 2000 8 80 1500 6 60 1000 4 40 500 2 20 0 0 10000 MG B B+3 B+5 B+20 SlIAA4 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 MG 7000 B B+3 B+5 B B+3 SlIAA5 B+5 B+20 200 1000 100 0 B B+3 B+5 B+20 SlIAA24 SlIAA26 160 160 140 140 120 120 100 100 80 80 60 60 40 40 20 20 00 B+5 B+20 0 B B+3 B+5 B+20 SlIAA9 0 MG B+3 SlIAA6 100 300 2000 B 200 400 3000 MG 300 500 4000 500 400 600 5000 10 160 140 8 120 6 100 80 4 60 40 2 20 00 0 MG MG B+20 SlIAA8 6000 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 SlIAA3 100 MG B B+3 B+5 B+20 SlIAA26 800 160 700 140 600 120 500 100 400 80 300 60 40 200 20 100 00 MG MG MG B B+3 B+5 B+20 BB B+3 B+3 B+5 B+5 B+20 B+20 SlIAA21 SlIAA26 M Microarray M RReal time R 200 200 150 150 100 Supplementary Fig. S4: Validation of microarray expression profiles for tomato Aux/IAA genes at different developmental stages by QPCR. Three biological replicates for each stage were used 100 to generate microarray and QPCR expression profiles. Y-axis represents the normalized raw 50 expression values obtained from the microarray analysis in the form of relative transcript abundance while X-axis shows five fruit developmental 50 stages in tomato. Standard error bars are shown for data obtained using both techniques. MG; mature green, B; breaker. B+3, B+5 and B+20 represent 3, 5 0 and 20 days post breaker stages of fruit ripening. 0 MG B B+3 B+5 MG B B+3 B+5 MG B B+3 B+3 B+5 B+5 B+20 B+20 MG MG B B B+3 B+3 B+5 B+5 B+20 B+20 Supplementary Fig. S5: Expression profiles of ARF and Aux/IAA genes from tomato and pepper. Heatmaps showing expression of members of these two gene families in various tissues/organs and developmental stages (labeled on top) of tomato (A), pepper (B) and potato (C). Color scale represents log2(RPKM) values in case of RNA-seq data publically available for tomato (TGC 2012) and pepper (Kim et al., 2014). MG, mature green; B, breaker; DPA, days post anthesis; cm, fruit diameter in centimeter. Control Bright field Merged IAA1 IAA3 IAA5 IAA7 IAA10 IAA11 IAA13 IAA15 IAA17 IAA21 IAA22 IAA23 IAA24 Supplementary Fig. S6: Sub-cellular localization tomato Aux/IAA proteins in onion peel epidermal cells.