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Mutations in the CCD4 carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase gene of yellow-flesh peaches.
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry - 1 Jan 2013
Fukamatsu Yosuke, Tamura Takayuki, Hihara Seisuke, Oda Kenji
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Peach trees bear either white- or yellow-flesh fruit. We found that Japanese peach cultivars have two types of mutation in a carotenoid catabolic gene, CCD4: the insertion of a retrotransposon, and a frame shift in the microsatellite sequences of the first exon. CCD4 in yellow-flesh peaches was d...
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