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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2008

The paramutated SULFUREA locus of tomato is involved in auxin biosynthesis.

Britta Ehlert, Mark Aurel Schöttler, Gilbert Tischendorf, Jutta Ludwig-Müller, Ralph Bock

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  3. SLTAB2 is the paramutated SULFUREA locus in tomato.Journal of experimental botany · 2016
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  5. Paramutagenicity of a p1 epiallele in maize.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2013
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5 authors.

Britta EhlertMax-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
Mark Aurel Schöttler
Gilbert Tischendorf
Jutta Ludwig-Müller
Ralph Bock

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) sulfurea mutation displays trans-inactivation of wild-type alleles in heterozygous plants, a phenomenon referred to as paramutation. Homozygous mutant plants and paramutated leaf tissue of heterozygous plants show a pigment-deficient phenotype. The molecular basis of this phenotype and the function of the SULFUREA gene (SULF) are unknown. Here, a comprehensive physiological analysis of the sulfurea mutant is reported which suggests a molecular function for the SULFUREA locus. It is found that the sulf mutant is auxin-deficient and that the pigment-deficient phenotype is likely to represent only a secondary consequence of the auxin deficiency. This is most strongly supported by the isolation of a suppressor mutant which shows an auxin overaccumulation phenotype and contains elevated levels of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA). Several lines of evidence point to a role of the SULF gene in tryptophan-independent auxin biosynthesis, a pathway whose biochemistry and enzymology is still completely unknown. Thus, the sulfurea mutant may provide a promising entry point into elucidating the tryptophan-independent pathway of IAA synthesis.

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MutationGene Expression Regulation, PlantIndoleacetic AcidsPhenotypePhotosynthetic Reaction Center Complex ProteinsPigments, BiologicalPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinsSolanum lycopersicumSuppression, GeneticTryptophanIndoleacetic AcidsPhotosynthetic Reaction Center Complex ProteinsPigments, BiologicalPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinsTryptophan

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PMCPMC2561159

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