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Tomato mutants as tools for functional genomics
Eyal Emmanuel1, Avraham A Levy
1Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|February 22, 2002
Abstract:
Tomato mutants have been used in genetic studies and breeding for decades, yet only a few tomato mutants have been characterized at the molecular level. Similarly, a wealth of sequence information for tomato is now available but the functions of only a few genes are known. New developments - such as the use of saturated mutant populations, new methods for the detection of mutants and new sequence data - are bridging the gap between tomato genes and their functions.