fw2.2: A quantitative trait locus key to the evolution of tomato fruit size

Science

Volumn 289, Issue 5476, 2000, Pages 85-88

  Frary, Anne ^a   Nesbitt, T Clint ^a   Frary, Amy ^a,c   Grandillo, Silvana ^a,d   Van Der Knaap, Esther ^a   Cong, Bin ^a   Liu, Jiping ^a   Meller, Jaroslaw ^b   Elber, Ron ^b   Alpert, Kevin B ^a   Tanksley, Steven D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^c MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C H RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TOMATO;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTIG MAPPING; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEIN P21(RAS); PLANT COMPONENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0034617236     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5476.85     Document Type: Article

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