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Tomato Molecular Biology

  2. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an established model for studying plant cuticle because of its thick cuticle covering and embedding the epidermal cells of the fruit. In this study, we screened an EMS mutant coll...

    Authors: Cécile Bres, Johann Petit, Nicolas Reynoud, Lysiane Brocard, Didier Marion, Marc Lahaye, Bénédicte Bakan and Christophe Rothan
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2022 2:14
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  3. Tomato production is influenced by shoot branching, which is controlled by different hormones. Here we produced tomato plants overexpressing the cytokinin-deactivating gene CYTOKININ OXYDASE 2 (CKX2). CKX2-overex...

    Authors: Lilian Ellen Pino, Joni E. Lima, Mateus H. Vicente, Ariadne F. L. de Sá, Francisco Pérez-Alfocea, Alfonso Albacete, Juliana L. Costa, Tomáš Werner, Thomas Schmülling, Luciano Freschi, Antonio Figueira, Agustin Zsögön and Lázaro E. P. Peres
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2022 2:12
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  5. We review the latest information related to the control of fruit softening in tomato and where relevant compare the events with texture changes in other fleshy fruits. Development of an acceptable texture is e...

    Authors: Duoduo Wang and Graham B. Seymour
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2022 2:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. The bushy root-2 (brt-2) tomato mutant has twisting roots, and slower plant development. Here we used whole genome resequencing and genetic mapping to show that brt-2 is caused by a serine to cysteine (S75C) subs...

    Authors: Zoltan Kevei, Silva Demetryus Silva Ferreira, Cristina Maria Perez Casenave, Tomasz Kurowski, Fady Mohareb, Daniel Rickett, Chris Stain and Andrew J. Thompson
    Citation: Molecular Horticulture 2022 2:4
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