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  • The phenolic polymer lignin is thought to have contributed to adaptation of early land plants to terrestrial environments. Here Renaultet al. show that moss, which does not produce lignin, contains an ancestral phenolic metabolism pathway that produces a phenol-enriched cuticle and prevents desiccation.

    • Hugues Renault
    • Annette Alber
    • Danièle Werck-Reichhart
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 8, P: 1-8

  • Softening in tomatoes is uncoupled from ripening by silencing a pectate lyase, thereby identifying a route to engineering (or breeding) tomatoes with better shelf life and flavor.

    • Selman Uluisik
    • Natalie H Chapman
    • Graham B Seymour
    Research
    Nature Biotechnology
    Volume: 34, P: 950-952

  • Björn Usadel and colleagues report the genome sequence of the wild tomato species Solanum pennellii. The authors identify genes important for stress tolerance, metabolism and fruit maturation and suggest that transposable elements have had an important role in the evolution of the S. penellii stress response.

    • Anthony Bolger
    • Federico Scossa
    • Alisdair R Fernie
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 46, P: 1034-1038