Micro-Tom Tomato as an Alternative Plant Model System: Mutant Collection and Efficient Transformation
| Autor: | Hiroshi Ezura, Masahito Shikata |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine business.industry Agrobacterium fungi Mutant food and beverages Genetically modified crops Biology biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Genome Biotechnology 03 medical and health sciences Transformation (genetics) 030104 developmental biology Arabidopsis Botany Cultivar business Functional genomics 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Plant Signal Transduction ISBN: 9781493931149 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4939-3115-6_5 |
| Popis: | Tomato is a model plant for fruit development, a unique feature that classical model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice do not have. The tomato genome was sequenced in 2012 and tomato is becoming very popular as an alternative system for plant research. Among many varieties of tomato, Micro-Tom has been recognized as a model cultivar for tomato research because it shares some key advantages with Arabidopsis including its small size, short life cycle, and capacity to grow under fluorescent lights at a high density. Mutants and transgenic plants are essential materials for functional genomics research, and therefore, the availability of mutant resources and methods for genetic transformation are key tools to facilitate tomato research. Here, we introduce the Micro-Tom mutant database "TOMATOMA" and an efficient transformation protocol for Micro-Tom. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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