Flavonoid biodiversity III information from specific tomato mutants

3 Flavonoid biodiversity III information from specific tomato mutants 

Natural or induced mutations can prove to be very powerful tools to use for the study of metabolic pathway regulation. Biosynthetic perturbations resulting from alterations to structural and/or regulatory genes have already been observed in tomato and the iirforma-tion gathered from these systems has already proved very valuable. 

Interest in these visible mutants has grown, and as a result, scientists have made combinations of mutations through crossing. Several combinations of hp-1, hp-2, and Aft as well as two additional mutants, atroviolaceum atv) and Aubergine Abg) have been made. 

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