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Popovsky, S. and Paran, I. 2000. Molecular analysis of the Y locus in pepper: its
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Jahn, M., Paran, I., Hoffmann, K., Radwansky E., Livingstone, K., Grube, R.,
Aftergoot, E., Lapidot, M. and Moyer, J. 2000. Genetic mapping of the Tsw locus for
resistance to the Tospovirus tomato spotted wilt virus in Capsicum spp. and its
relationship to the Sw-5 gene for resistance to the same pathogen in tomato. Mol.
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Thorup, T., Tanyolac, B., Livingstone, K., Popovsky, S., Paran, I. and Jahn, M. 2000.
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Ben Chaim, A., Grube, R., Lapidot, M., Jahn, M. and Paran, I. 2001. Identification of
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Blum, E., Liu, K., Mazourek, M., Jahn, M. and Paran, I. 2002. Molecular mapping of
the C locus for presence of pungency in Capsicum fruit. Genome. 45: 702-705.
Ben Chaim, A., Borovsky, E., Rao, G. U., Tanyolac, B. and Paran, I. 2003. fs3.1: a
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Rao, G. U. and Paran, I. 2003. Polygalacturonase: a candidate gene for the soft flesh
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Rao, G. U. Ben Chaim, A., Borovsky, E. and Paran, I. 2003.Mapping of yield related
QTLs in pepper in an inter-specific cross of Capsicum annuum and C. frutescens.
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Ben Chaim, A., Borovsky, E., De Jong, W. and Paran, I. 2003.
Linkage of the A locus for the presence of anthocyanin and fs10.1, a major fruit-shape
QTL in pepper. Theor. Appl. Genet. 106: 889-894.
Blum, E., Mazourek, M., O’Connell, M., Curry, J., Thorup, T., Liu, K., Jahn, M. and
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analysis for capsaicinoid content in Capsicum. Theor. Appl. Genet. 108: 79-86.
Steinitz, B., Rusek, M., Tabib, Y., Paran, I. and Zelcer, A. 2003. Pepper (Capsicum
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locus that controls anthocyanin accumulation in pepper encodes a MYB transcription
factor homologous to Anthocyanin2 of Petunia. Theor. Appl. Genet. 109: 23-29
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(cl) mutation in pepper (Capsicum spp.) and screening for candidate genes using
tomato ESTs homologous to structural genes of the chlorophyll catabolism pathway.
Genome 48: 347-351
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QTL mapping of fruit size and shape in chromosomes 2 and 4 in pepper and
comparison of QTL maps with tomato. Theor. Appl. Genet. 111: 437-445
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its relationship to beta-carotene hydroxylase polymorphism. American Journal of
Potato Research. 83: 365-372
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study shoot architecture in Capsicum. Israel Journal of Plant Science. 55: 125-131
Borovsky, Y., Paran, I. 2008. Chlorophyll breakdown during pepper fruit ripening in
the chlorophyll retainer mutation is impaired at the homolog of the senescenceinducible stay-green gene. Theor. Appl. Genet. 117: 235-240
Lippman, Z., Cohen, O., Alvarez, J., Abu-Abied, M., Pekker, I., Paran, I., Eshed,
Y.,Zamir, D. 2008. The making of a compound inflorescence in tomato and related
Nightshades. Plos Biology 6 (11) e288.
Elitzur, T., Nahum, H., Borovsky, Y., Pekker, I., Eshed, Y., Paran, I. 2009.
Coordinated regulation of flowering time, plant architecture and growth by
FASCICULATE - the pepper ortholog of SELF PRUNING. Journal of Experimental
Botany. 60: 869-880
Mazourek, M. Pujar, A. Borovsky, Y. Paran, I. Mueller, L. Jahn, MM. 2009.
A dynamic interface for capsaicinoid systems biology. Plant Physiology. 150: 18061821.
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Lapidot, M., Levin, I. 2009. Molecular dissection of Tomato leaf curl virus resistance
in tomato line TY172 derived from Solanum peruvianum. Theor. Appl. Genet. 119:
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