Complex cellular and molecular events determining fruit size
Trends in Plant Science, 2021 The understanding of plant organ-size determination represents an important challenge, especially because of the significant role of plants as food and renewable energy sources and the increasing need for plant-derived products. Most of the knowledge on the regulation of organ growth and the molecular network controlling cell division and cell ...
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Idiosyncratic and dose-dependent epistasis drives variation in tomato fruit size. [PDF]
Science, 2023 Epistasis between genes is traditionally studied with mutations that eliminate protein activity, but most natural genetic variation is in cis-regulatory DNA and influences gene expression and function quantitatively.
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Comparative Anatomical and Transcriptomics Reveal the Larger Cell Size as a Major Contributor to Larger Fruit Size in Apricot. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2023 Fruit size is one of the essential quality traits and influences the economic value of apricots. To explore the underlying mechanisms of the formation of differences in fruit size in apricots, we performed a comparative analysis of anatomical and ...
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Cytokinins is involved in regulation of tomato pericarp thickness and fruit size. [PDF]
Hortic Res, 2022 Although cytokinins (CKs) regulate fruit development, no direct genetic evidence supports the role of endogenous CKs in pericarp growth or development or fruit size. Here, we report that the reduction in levels of endogenous active CKs via overexpression
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The MdAux/IAA2 Transcription Repressor Regulates Cell and Fruit Size in Apple Fruit. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2022 Auxin plays an important role in regulating plant development, and Auxin/indole acetic acid (Aux/IAA) is a type of auxin-responsive gene and plays an important role in auxin signaling; to date, although 29 Aux/IAA proteins have been reported in ...
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Identification and characterization of GLOBE, a major gene controlling fruit shape and impacting fruit size and marketability in tomato. [PDF]
Hortic Res, 2021 Within large-fruited germplasm, fruit size is influenced by flat and globe shapes. Whereas flat fruits are smaller and retain better marketability, globe fruits are larger and more prone to cuticle disorders.
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Organic Waste-Based Fertilizer in Hydroponics Increases Tomato Fruit Size but Reduces Fruit Quality. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2021 In regions with intensive agricultural production, large amounts of organic waste are produced by livestock animals. Liquid digestate from manure-based biogas production could potentially serve as fertilizer if integrated with closed horticultural ...
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Genetic and phenotypic analyses reveal major quantitative loci associated to fruit size and shape traits in a non-flat peach collection (P. persica L. Batsch). [PDF]
Hortic Res, 2021 Fruit size and shape are critical agronomical and pomological attributes and prime targets in peach breeding programs. Apart from the flat peach type, a Mendelian trait well-characterized at the genetic level, ample diversity of fruit size and shapes is ...
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QTLs and candidate genes analyses for fruit size under domestication and differentiation in melon (Cucumis melo L.) based on high resolution maps. [PDF]
BMC Plant Biol, 2021 Melon is a very important horticultural crop produced worldwide with high phenotypic diversity. Fruit size is among the most important domestication and differentiation traits in melon. The molecular mechanisms of fruit size in melon are largely unknown.
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ENO regulates tomato fruit size through the floral meristem development network. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Fruit-size increase is one of the major changes associated with tomato domestication, and it currently represents an important objective for breeding.
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