The invention provides a
gene for regulating and controlling the shape of a tomato leaf and application thereof, and a construction method of a
recombinant expression vector is characterized in that an SlPUB26
gene is inserted into a vector containing a strong
promoter by utilizing an overexpression
transgenic technology. Transgenic plants with different
gene expression level up-regulation multiples are obtained through
agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation, so that single plants with different leaf
phenotype change degrees are obtained. According to the method, a precise targeting sequence does not need to be designed, the miss-target hidden danger does not exist, and single plants with different SlPUB26
gene expression levels can be obtained only by detecting the
gene expression quantity, so that the single plants with different leaf
shape change degrees are obtained. The technical operation difficulty is low, and the method is more suitable for non-professional
molecular breeding teams or grass-roots agricultural scientific research institutions. The higher the up-regulation multiple of the expression level of the SlPUB26 gene is, the lower the length-
width ratio of the tomato leaf is, so that the shape of the tomato leaf can be quickly and accurately adjusted by adjusting the expression level of the SlPUB26 gene.