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A retrotransposon-mediated gene duplication underlies morphological variation of tomato fruit.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 14 Mar 2008
Xiao Han, Jiang Ning, Schaffner Erin, Stockinger Eric J, van der Knaap Esther
Abstract excerpt
Edible fruits, such as that of the tomato plant and other vegetable crops, are markedly diverse in shape and size. SUN, one of the major genes controlling the elongated fruit shape of tomato, was positionally cloned and found to encode a member of the IQ67 domain-containing family. We show that the locus arose as a result of an unusual 24.7-kilobase gene duplication event mediated by the long terminal repeat...
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