Overview

Tomato is a useful material for fruit-related research such as ripening, ethylene signaling, and secondary metabolite profi ling. Therefore, tomato can provide new insights into biological processes that can not be obtained using other model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice.

Among many varieties of tomato, Micro-Tom has been recognized as a model cultivar for tomato research because it shares some key advantages with Arabidopsis including its small size, short life cycle, and capacity to grow under fluorescent lights at a high density.

In addition, any existing growth space for Arabidopsis can be immediately utilized for Micro-Tom with only a slight temperature modifi cation.

Genomic information

Choromsome number: 12

Total assembly(bp): 798,935,606

Longest contig(bp): 68,578,620

Number of contigs: 8

N50 contig length(bp): 41,367,923

Protein-coding genes: 35,213

Gene BUSCO: 98.4%

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