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Journal of Experimental Botany, doi:10.1093/jxb/erm257
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© The Author [2007]. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

REVIEW-ARTICLE

Genetic and molecular regulation of fruit and plant domestication traits in tomato and pepper

Ilan Paran1 and Esther van der Knaap2,*

1Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, PO Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
2Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, The Ohio State University/Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, 1680 Madison Ave, Wooster OH 44691, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vanderknaap.1{at}osu.edu

Tomato and pepper are two Solanaceous fruit crops that display an enormous diversity in fruit morphology. In this review, we will present an overview of the history of tomato and pepper and discuss key plant traits that were specifically selected during domestication of the two species. The traits discussed are fruit weight, shape, colour, ripening, pungency and plant architecture. We will review these characteristics as well as the genetic loci or genes that control these features, questioning whether mutations at orthologous loci occurred independently in these two species or whether unique plant and fruit features resulted in selection at different genes.

Key words: Domestication, orthology, pepper, tomato

Received 4 July 2007; Revised 23 September 2007 Accepted 25 September 2007


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