Claim · model-written summary
Using newly developed Solanum genetic systems, prickles were eliminated in a wild species and in an indigenously foraged berry.
- Taxon
- a wild species and an indigenously foraged berrye0
- Treatment
- developing new Solanum genetic systemse0
- Outcome
- pricklese0
- Direction
- eliminatee0
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Verbatim
e0“By developing new Solanum genetic systems, we leveraged this discovery to eliminate prickles in a wild species and an indigenously foraged berry”
Title
Convergent evolution of plant prickles by repeated gene co-option over deep time
James W. Satterlee; David Alonso; Pietro Gramazio; et al. Science 2024. doi:10.1126/science.ado1663
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Mechanism Mutations in a cytokinin hormone biosynthetic gene caused at least 16 independent losses of prickles in eggplants and wild relatives in the genus Solanum.
- Mechanism Homologs of the cytokinin biosynthetic gene underlie prickle formation across angiosperms that diverged more than 150 million years ago, including rice and roses.
- Mechanism The authors conclude that a shared hormone activation genetic program underlies widespread and recurrent evolution of plant morphological innovation such as prickles.