Junjun Shen, Yanxin Jiang, Jian Pan, Linhan Sun, Qingqing Li, Wenjing He, Piaoyun Sun, Bosi Zhao, Hongjiao Zhao, Xubo Ke, Yalu Guo, Tongwen Yang, Zheng Li
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus, Cs) tendrils are slender vegetative organs that typically require manual removal to ensure orderly growth during greenhouse cultivation. Here, we identified cucumber tendril-less (tl), a Tnt1 retrotransposon-induced insertion mutant lacking tendrils. Map-based cloning identified the mutated gene, CsaV3_3G003590, which we designated as CsTL, which is homologous to Arabidopsis thaliana LATERAL SUPPRESSOR (AtLAS). Knocking out CsTL repressed tendril formation but did not affect branch initiation, whereas overexpression of CsTL resulted in the formation of two or more tendrils in one leaf axil...
April 17, 2024: Plant Cell