Convergence of developmental mutants into a single tomato model system: 'Micro-Tom' as an effective toolkit for plant development research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) plant is both an economically important food crop and an ideal dicot model to investigate various physiological phenomena not possible in Arabidopsis thaliana. Due to the great diversity of tomato cultivars used by the research community, it is often difficult to reliably compare phenotypes. The lack of tomato developmental mutants in a single genetic background prevents the stacking of mutations to facilitate analysis of double and multiple mutants, often required for elucidating developmental pathways.

Results

We took advantage of the small size and rapid life cycle of the tomato cultivar Micro-Tom (MT) to create near-isogenic lines (NILs) by introgressing a suite of hormonal and photomorphogenetic mutations (altered sensitiv

SUBMITTER: Carvalho RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3146949 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature