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A single locus confers tolerance to continuous light and allows substantial yield increase in tomato.
Nature communications - 5 Aug 2014
Velez-Ramirez Aaron I, van Ieperen Wim, Vreugdenhil Dick, van Poppel Pieter M J A, Heuvelink Ep, Millenaar Frank F
Abstract excerpt
An important constraint for plant biomass production is the natural day length. Artificial light allows for longer photoperiods, but tomato plants develop a detrimental leaf injury when grown under continuous light--a still poorly understood phenomenon discovered in the 1920s. Here, we report a dominant locus on chromosome 7 of wild tomato species that confers continuous light tolerance. Genetic evidence, RNAseq...
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