Tomato Size (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Tomato Size

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Researchers showed that structural variation, in this case the number of copies of a gene, can alter fruit. Plants with three gene copies (left) grew fruit 30 percent larger than those with one (right).

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Credit: M. Alonge et al./Cell 2020

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