Abstract
Tomato is a model plant for fruit development, a unique feature that classical model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice do not have. The tomato genome was sequenced in 2012 and tomato is becoming very popular as an alternative system for plant research. Among many varieties of tomato, Micro-Tom has been recognized as a model cultivar for tomato research because it shares some key advantages with Arabidopsis including its small size, short life cycle, and capacity to grow under fluorescent lights at a high density.
Mutants and transgenic plants are essential materials for functional genomics research, and therefore, the availability of mutant resources and methods for genetic transformation are key tools to facilitate tomato research. Here, we introduce the Micro-Tom mutant database “TOMATOMA” and an efficient transformation protocol for Micro-Tom.
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Shikata, M., Ezura, H. (2016). Micro-Tom Tomato as an Alternative Plant Model System: Mutant Collection and Efficient Transformation. In: Botella, J., Botella, M. (eds) Plant Signal Transduction. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1363. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3115-6_5
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