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The tomato genome fleshed out

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Sequencing of the tomato genome reveals key events in the evolution of fruit size, texture, flavor and nutritional quality.

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Figure 1: The tomato genome sequence facilitates high-density, optimally placed marker sets that are very tightly linked to—or even within—genes of interest.

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  1. Todd P. Michael and Rob Alba are in The Genome Analysis Center, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

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Although Monsanto breeds tomatoes and sells tomato seeds through the Seminis and De Ruiters Brands, the authors are uninvolved in this part of the business.

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Michael, T., Alba, R. The tomato genome fleshed out. Nat Biotechnol 30, 765–767 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2319

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