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Letter to the Editor|07 Apr 2026|OPEN
Tomato SPAK and OFPs act as promising targets for fine-tuning fruit elongation by affecting cell division patterns at the proximal end
Qiang Li
1 ,† , Bingbing Cai
1 ,† , Fubin Zhang
1 , Yike Liu
1 , Yunuo Chang
1 , Xiao Du
1 , Xupeng Jia
1 , Esther van der Knaap
2,3 ,
, Qingyun Li,
1 ,
1College of Horticulture, Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Hebei, Baoding, Hebei Province 071000, China
2Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
3Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
*Corresponding author. E-mail: EsthervanderKnaap@uga.edu,yylq@hebau.edu.cn
†Both authors contributed equally to the study.
Horticulture Research 13,
Article number: uhag123 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhag123
Views: 107
Received: 04 Feb 2026
Accepted: 23 Mar 2026
Published online: 07 Apr 2026
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