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Esther van der Knaap

Researcher at University of Georgia

Publications -  102
Citations -  10252

Esther van der Knaap is an academic researcher from University of Georgia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Domestication. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 89 publications receiving 7997 citations. Previous affiliations of Esther van der Knaap include Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center & College of Wooster.

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fw2.2: a quantitative trait locus key to the evolution of tomato fruit size.

TL;DR: Alterations in fruit size, imparted by fw2.2 alleles, are most likely due to changes in regulation rather than in the sequence and structure of the encoded protein.
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A Retrotransposon-Mediated Gene Duplication Underlies Morphological Variation of Tomato Fruit

TL;DR: SUN, one of the major genes controlling the elongated fruit shape of tomato, was positionally cloned and found to encode a member of the IQ67 domain–containing family, and it is shown that the locus arose as a result of an unusual 24.7-kilobase gene duplication event mediated by the long terminal repeat retrotransposon Rider.
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Agriculture: Feeding the future

Susan R. McCouch, +46 more
- 03 Jul 2013 - 
TL;DR: Humanity depends on fewer than a dozen of the approximately 300,000 species of flowering plants for 80% of its caloric intake and capitalize on only a fraction of the genetic diversity that resides within each of these species.