image: The patterns of ripe fruit pigmentation are genetically determined prior to the onset of ripening. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 29, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Ann L.T. Powell at the University of California, Davis, in Davis, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Uniform ripening Encodes a Golden 2-like Transcription Factor Regulating Tomato Fruit Chloroplast Development." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of S. Zhong and J. Giovannoni]