Claim · model-written summary
A gene controlling locule number and fruit size lies in this chromosome section.
- Taxon
- TOMATO
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Gene
- A gene controlling number of loculese0
- Outcome
- affects fruit sizee0
Verbatim
t0“THE TOMATO”
e0“A gene controlling number of locules, which affects fruit size, is also located in this section of the chromosome”
Title
SOME EFFECTS ON FRUIT SIZE OF CHROMOSOME 2 OF THE TOMATO
L. Butler Canadian Journal of Botany 1965. doi:10.1139/b65-016
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association The listed genes all affect fruit weight.
- Association Recessive alleles except suf and Lc were associated with small fruit size.
- Association The major fruit-size effect occurred in the o region.
- Association The o gene makes fruit oval or pear-shaped instead of spherical.
- Association With equal locule-wall cell counts, spherical fruit is heavier than oval fruit.
- Association The d and s genes appear linked to fruit-size genes.
- Observation The authors suggest size genes lie in heterochromatin adjacent to both linkage-map ends.
- Association suf appears to increase fruit size through pleiotropy.
- Association dil appears to decrease fruit size through pleiotropy.