Publication Date:
2002-04-16
Description:
Tomato plants harboring the ripening-inhibitor (rin) mutation yield fruits that fail to ripen. Additionally, rin plants display enlarged sepals and loss of inflorescence determinacy. Positional cloning of the rin locus revealed two tandem MADS-box genes (LeMADS-RIN and LeMADS-MC), whose expression patterns suggested roles in fruit ripening and sepal development, respectively. The rin mutation alters expression of both genes. Gene repression and mutant complementation demonstrate that LeMADS-RIN regulates ripening, whereas LeMADS-MC affects sepal development and inflorescence determinacy. LeMADS-RIN demonstrates an agriculturally important function of plant MADS-box genes and provides molecular insight into nonhormonal (developmental) regulation of ripening.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vrebalov, Julia -- Ruezinsky, Diane -- Padmanabhan, Veeraragavan -- White, Ruth -- Medrano, Diana -- Drake, Rachel -- Schuch, Wolfgang -- Giovannoni, Jim -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Apr 12;296(5566):343-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Plant, Soil and Nutrition Lab and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11951045" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Chromosome Mapping
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Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast
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Cloning, Molecular
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DNA, Antisense
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DNA, Complementary
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Ethylenes/biosynthesis/pharmacology
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Fruit/physiology
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Gene Expression
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Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
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*Genes, Plant
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Genetic Complementation Test
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Lycopersicon esculentum/*genetics/*physiology
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MADS Domain Proteins/*genetics/physiology
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Phylogeny
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Plant Proteins/*genetics/physiology
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Plant Structures/genetics/physiology
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Plants, Genetically Modified
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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