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Tomato fruit weight 11.3 maps close to fasciated on the bottom of chromosome 11

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Fruit weight is an important character in many crops. In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), fruit weight is controlled by many loci, some of which have a major effect on the trait. Fruit weight 11.3 (fw11.3) and fasciated (fas) have been mapped to the same region on chromosome 11. We sought to determine whether these loci represent alleles of the same or separate genes. We show that fas and fw11.3 are not allelic and instead represent separate genes. The fw11.3 locus was fine-mapped to a 149-kb region comprised of 22 predicted genes. Unlike most fruit weight loci, gene action at fw11.3 indicates that the mutant allele is partially dominant over the wild allele. We also investigate the nature of the genome rearrangement at the fas locus and demonstrate that the mutation is due to a 294-kb inversion disrupting the YABBY gene known to underlie the fas locus.

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We thank Claire Anderson for her help with the analysis of the rearrangement at the fas locus. We thank all members of the Van der Knaap laboratory, in particular Jenny Moyseenko for their help with greenhouse and field experiments. The work was supported by National Science Foundation grant IOS 0922661 to EvdK.

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Huang, Z., van der Knaap, E. Tomato fruit weight 11.3 maps close to fasciated on the bottom of chromosome 11. Theor Appl Genet 123, 465–474 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-011-1599-3

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