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Mutant tomato reveals how plants grow skin

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For the first time, scientists have identified how a plant’s skin is assembled.

“How these building blocks of cutin get put together has been completely unknown,” says Jocelyn Rose, associate professor of plant biology at Cornell University.

Full story at Futurity.

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