andromonoecious

To determine whether the andromonoecious phenotype is due to a loss of ACS enzymatic activity, we expressed the four isoforms in

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Like in melon, the isoforms from the andromonoecious lines showed reduced to no enzymatic activity and the isoform from the monoecious line was active.

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We showed that CmACS-7 is specifically expressed in carpel primordia, and, in andromonoecious genotypes, a missense mutation leads to loss of enzymatic activity.

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Phenotypically, melon andromonoecious (a) gene appears to act similarly to cucumber

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The blue and red boxes indicate the amino acid changes associated with the andromonoecious phenotype in melon and cucumber, respectively.

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To determine whether hermaphrodite flowers in andromonoecious and hermaphrodite plants is due to loss of a CsACS2 enzymatic activity, we expressed the four different forms of the protein as six-histidine tag (His

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