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Winding down

After finishing the last week of scanning, we will be throwing away the majority of my plants which no longer serve a purpose. So to honor their service, I took one last photo with them.


Above are images of the plants in the third and sixth week post sowing. Their growth is astonishing to me; Two plants (after all data was collected thank goodness) fell off the bench due to their sheer height and weight. I've overall enjoyed working with tomatoes though because I am grateful I got to work on such an important crop. It was extremely rewarding to be on this project as we were successful in narrowing the region of interest where our locus can be.

Above shows how the previous and current knowledge concerning the region of the chlorophyll content gene in tomato. The genotypes are 21S237, 21S238, 21S239, & 21S240 reading from top to bottom.

We are able to lower the region of interest to 31.5 thousand base pairs because we saw both 237 and 240 separate phenotypically that correlated to their genotypes. Therefore we know the gene of interest is somewhere in the heterozygous region associated with 237 and the heterozygous region in 240. The only area where these overlap is 31.5 thousand basepairs long so the region is considerably smaller than the 69.8 thousand basepairs it used to be. 



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