Multiple evidence for the role of an Ovate-like gene in determining fruit shape in pepper.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Grafting is a widely used technique contributing to sustainable and ecological production of many vegetables, but important fruit quality characters such as taste, aroma, texture and shape are known for years to be affected by grafting in important vegetables species including pepper. From all the characters affected, fruit shape is the most easily observed and measured. From research in tomato, fruit shape is known to be controlled by many QTLs but only few of them have larger effect on fruit shape variance. In this study we used pepper cultivars with different fruit shape to study the role of a pepper Ovate-like gene, CaOvate, which encodes a negative regulator protein that brings significant changes in tomato fruit shape.

Results

We successfully cloned and char

SUBMITTER: Tsaballa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3069956 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature