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A new class of regulatory genes underlying the cause of pear-shaped tomato fruit.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Oct 2002
Liu Jiping, Van Eck Joyce, Cong Bin, Tanksley Steven D
Abstract excerpt
A common, recurring theme in domesticated plants is the occurrence of pear-shaped fruit. A major quantitative trait locus (termed ovate) controlling the transition from round to pear-shaped fruit has been cloned from tomato. OVATE is expressed early in flower and fruit development and encodes a previously uncharacterized, hydrophilic protein with a putative bipartite nuclear localization signal, Von Willebrand...
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