Researchers describe gene that makes large, plump tomatoes

Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 13:02 in Biology & Nature

Farmers can grow big, juicy tomatoes thanks to a mutation in the Cell Size Regulator gene that occurred during the tomato domestication process. Esther van der Knaap of the University of Georgia, Athens and colleagues describe this gene variant in a study published in open-access journal PLOS Genetics on August 17th, 2017.

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