The suffulta mutation in tomato reveals a novel method of plastid replication during fruit ripening.

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Mutant alleles at the suffulta locus of tomato dramatically affect the pattern of plastid division throughout the plant, resulting in few, greatly enlarged chloroplasts in leaf and stem cells. suffulta plants are compromised in growth and have distinctly pale stems. The green developing tomato fruit are generally paler compared with the wild type, but ripe red fruit are much more similar in colour and pigment...

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