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ArticleThe Plant cell1999

Phenotype of the tomato high pigment-2 mutant is caused by a mutation in the tomato homolog of DEETIOLATED1.

A C Mustilli, F Fenzi, R Ciliento, F Alfano, C Bowler

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Article in The Plant cell, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A C MustilliMolecular Plant Biology Laboratory, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Naples, Italy.
F Fenzi
R Ciliento
F Alfano
C Bowler
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tomato high pigment (hp) mutants are characterized by their exaggerated photoresponsiveness. Light-grown hp mutants display elevated levels of anthocyanins, are shorter and darker than wild-type plants, and have dark green immature fruits due to the overproduction of chlorophyll pigments. It has been proposed that HP genes encode negative regulators of phytochrome signal transduction. We have cloned the HP-2 gene and found that it encodes the tomato homolog of the nuclear protein DEETIOLATED1 (DET1) from Arabidopsis. Mutations in DET1 are known to result in constitutive deetiolation in darkness. In contrast to det1 mutants, tomato hp-2 mutants do not display any visible phenotypes in the dark but only very weak phenotypes, such as partial chloroplast development. Furthermore, whereas det1 mutations are epistatic to mutations in phytochrome genes, analysis of similar double mutants in tomato showed that manifestation of the phenotype of the hp-2 mutant is strictly dependent upon the presence of active phytochrome. Because only one DET1 gene is likely to be present in each of the two species, our data suggest that the phytochrome signaling pathways in which the corresponding proteins function are regulated differently in Arabidopsis and tomato.

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Arabidopsis ProteinsAmino Acid SequenceAnthocyaninsArabidopsisChloroplastsGene Expression Regulation, PlantIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsLightMolecular Sequence DataMutationNuclear ProteinsPhenotypePhytochromePlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinsSequence AlignmentAnthocyaninsArabidopsis ProteinsDET1 protein, ArabidopsisIntracellular Signaling Peptides and ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPhytochromePlant Growth RegulatorsPlant ProteinstDET1 protein, Lycopersicon esculentum

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PMID9927635
PMCPMC144164
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