Figure 1.

Suppression of MC resulted in the inhibition of pedicel AZ development in tomato. A to E, Fruit pedicels of the wild type (A), rin mutant (B), j mutant (C), and MC-suppressed transformants (D and E). F to K, A pedicel AZ of the wild type and a vestigial organ of the transformant harvested at the fruit-ripening stage. External appearance (F and I), longitudinal sections (G and J), and lignified cells within pedicels stained with phloroglucinol-HCl (H and K) are shown. Arrowheads indicate the interruption of lignified cells in the wild type. L, Large sepal phenotype of the transformant. M, Normal inflorescence of the wild type. N, Indeterminate inflorescence of the transformant.