Researchers Describe Gene that Makes Large, Plump Tomatoes (IMAGE)

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Researchers Describe Gene that Makes Large, Plump Tomatoes

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Diversity in tomato fruit weight is explained in part by a mutation in the Cell Size Regulator gene that arose during domestication.

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Alexis Ramos and Esther van der Knaap, University of Georgia Athens GA 30602

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