title: Cultivated tomato clock runs slow.
abstract: The plant circadian clock is a complex network of genes crucial for plant survival. A new study finds that domestication gradually slowed down the circadian clock of tomato via selection on two major genes-one that delayed phasing of the clock with daylight, whereas the other induced a longer period.
authors.affiliation: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.|Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
authors.forename: Steve A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Kay
authors.affiliation: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.|Illumina, Inc., San Diego, California, USA.
authors.forename: Marie-Stanislas
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Remigereau
mesh_terms: D057906:Circadian Clocks / Q000235:genetics*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics*; D018551:Solanum lycopersicum / Q000235:genetics*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins