EMS-mutagenesis of the tomato Micro-Tom for large scale screening of mutants

Abstract

Tomato accumulates a variety of secondary metabolites in its fruits. Therefore tomato is one of the best candidates for the Metabolome Project in plants. A whole genome sequencing, analysis of the full-length cDNAs and ESTs and screening of mutants are essential to step forward the Tomato Genome Project. Actually we are performing the EMS-mutagenesis of tomato (Micro-Tom) to generate 5,000 M1 plants. We will show our current status on the EMS-mutagenesis and screening of tomato mutants using these lines.