Sentences with phrase «controlling pigment production»

Using a slew of molecular techniques, the team identified the color - stealing culprit in white grapes as a mobile fragment of DNA, called a retrotransposon, which inserts itself into the gene controlling pigment production.

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Previously, Shozo Kobayashi of the National Institute of Fruit Tree Science in Tsukuba, Japan, identified a specific gene that controls the production of this pigment in black - skinned grapes.