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SCIENCE
Volume 318, Issue 5850, Pages 643-645Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1148428
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We report the cloning of Style2.1, the major quantitative trait locus responsible for a key floral attribute (style length) associated with the evolution of self-pollination in cultivated tomatoes. The gene encodes a putative transcription factor that regulates cell elongation in developing styles. The transition from cross-pollination to self-pollination was accompanied, not by a change in the STYLE2.1 protein, but rather by a mutation in the Style2.1 promoter that results in a down-regulation of Style2.1 expression during flower development.
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