Interactions between jointless and wild-type tomato tissues during development of the pedicel abscission zone and the inflorescence meristem.

doi:10.1105/tpc.11.2.159

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Interactions between jointless and wild-type tomato tissues during development of the pedicel abscission zone and the inflorescence meristem.

The Plant cell - 1 Feb 1999

Szymkowiak E J, Irish E E

Abstract excerpt

The jointless mutation of tomato results in the formation of flower pedicels that lack an abscission zone and inflorescence meristems that revert to vegetative growth. We have analyzed periclinal chimeras and mericlinal sectors of jointless and wild-type tissue to determine how cells in different...

Topics

Chimera
Culture Techniques
Solanum lycopersicum
MADS Domain Proteins
Meristem
Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
Mutation
Plant Proteins

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