Extremely elongated tomato fruit controlled by four quantitative trait loci with epistatic interactions

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 104, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 241-247

  Van der Knaap, E ^a,b   Lippman, Z B ^a,c   Tanksley, S D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Fruit shape; Interaction; QTL; Tomato

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; MORPHOLOGY;

TOMATO FRUITS;

FRUITS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON PIMPINELLIFOLIUM; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0036939218     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-001-0776-1     Document Type: Article

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