A MADS-Box Gene Necessary for Fruit Ripening at the Tomato Ripening-Inhibitor ( Rin ) Locus
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- 12 April 2002
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 296 (5566) , 343-346
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1068181
Abstract
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.Keywords
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