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Sweet size control in tomato

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All cells of an adult plant are ultimately derived from divisions that occur in small groups of cells distributed throughout the plant, termed meristems. A new study shows that carbohydrate post-translational modification of a peptide signal influences meristem and, as a consequence, fruit size in tomato.

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Figure 1: The addition of sugars (triple-arabinosyl modification) to a hydroxyproline residue in the CLV3 signal peptide by arabinosyltransferases is required for the repression of meristem growth.

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Fleming, A. Sweet size control in tomato. Nat Genet 47, 698–699 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3345

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