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UF, a WOX gene, regulates a novel phenotype of un-fused flower in tomato.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Aug 2020
Zhang Chunli, Wang Jiafa, Wang Xin, Li Changxing, Ye Zhibiao, Zhang Junhong
Abstract excerpt
Flower formation is a basic condition for fruit set in all flowering plants. The normal stamen of tomato flower fused together to form a yellow cylinder surrounding the carpels. In this study, we identified an un-fused flower (uf) tomato mutant that is defective in petal, carpal and stamen fusion and lateral outgrowth. After RNA-seq-based BSA (BSR), the candidate region location was identified in the long arm of...
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