Claim · model-written summary
SP3C loss of function increased root length relative to wild type.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume1 - Treatment
- loss of SP3C functione0
- Gene
- SP3Ce0
- Outcome
- root lengthe0
- Direction
- increasese0
- Comparator
- wild typee0
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Verbatim
e0“loss of SP3C function in CRISPR/Cas9-generated mutant lines increases root length and reduces root side branching relative to the wild type”
e1“the tomato SELF PRUNING 3C (SP3C) gene”
Title
Juliene dos Reis Moreira; Alejandra Quiñones; Bruno Silvestre Lira; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 2022. doi:10.1093/jxb/erac265
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Mechanism Tomato SP3C acts as a flowering repressor.
- Mechanism Tomato SP3C regulates seed germination.
- Mechanism Tomato SP3C modulates root architecture.
- Intervention effect SP3C loss of function reduced root side branching relative to wild type.
- Intervention effect Higher SP3C expression shortened roots.
- Intervention effect Higher SP3C expression increased root side branching.
- Intervention effect Higher SP3C expression repressed seed germination.
- Intervention effect Higher SP3C expression improved water stress tolerance in seedlings.