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Establishing Physalis as a Solanaceae model system enables genetic reevaluation of the inflated calyx syndrome.
The Plant cell - 2 Jan 2023
He Jia, Alonge Michael, Ramakrishnan Srividya, Benoit Matthias, Soyk Sebastian, Reem Nathan T, Hendelman Anat, Van Eck Joyce, Schatz Michael C, Lippman Zachary B
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The highly diverse Solanaceae family contains several widely studied models and crop species. Fully exploring, appreciating, and exploiting this diversity requires additional model systems. Particularly promising are orphan fruit crops in the genus Physalis, which occupy a key evolutionary position in the Solanaceae and capture understudied variation in traits such as inflorescence complexity, fruit ripening and...
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