La mutación de un factor de transcripción bHLH permitió la domesticación de las almendras

R Sánchez-Pérez1,2,3, S Pavan4,5, R Mazzeo2,3,6

  • 1Department of Plant Breeding, CEBAS-CSIC, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, 30100 Espinardo, Spain. rsanchez@cebas.csic.es stefano.pavan@uniba.it.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 15, 2019
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Resumen

La domesticación de las almendras implicó la selección de los granos dulces mediante la identificación de una mutación genética. Esta mutación en el factor de transcripción bHLH2 impide la producción de amígdala, un compuesto tóxico que se encuentra en las almendras silvestres.

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