Cryptic variation fuels plant phenotypic change through hierarchical epistasis
Sophia G. Zebell, Carlos Martí‐Gómez, Blaine Fitzgerald, Camila Pinto da Cunha, Michael Lach, Brooke M. Seman, Anat Hendelman, Simon Sretenovic, Yiping Qi, Madelaine Elisabeth Bartlett, Yuval Eshed, David M. McCandlish, Zachary B. Lippman
The paper identifies cryptic genetic variants in tomato that drive phenotypic change through hierarchical epistasis in a gene regulatory network.
Nature · Jul 9, 2025Peer-reviewedPlant Biology