Abstract: The present invention relates to a new sequence of BRANCHED1a gene, the SpBRANCHED1a gene of Solanum pennellii, and to an expression product of said gene, to a vector, host cell, cell culture, recombinant expression system, or tomato plants comprising said SpBRANCHED1a gene. The present invention also refers to the heterologous use of the gene in tomato plants, to produce a plant having fewer and/or shorter axillary shoots than a control plant, and to a method for producing tomato plants having fewer and/or shorter axillary shoots than a control plant.

Abstract: This invention relates to a system for CO2 capture from a combustion flue gas using a CaO/CaCO3 chemical loop, wherein the CO2 is captured from large scale combustion systems using CaO as regenerable CO2 sorbent, where CaO particles are carbonated in contact with a flue gas at around 650° C. to later release pure CO2 when supplied with sufficient heat for CaCO3 calcination at around 900° C., wherein the system of this invention is characterized by a first direct heat exchange from a high temperature flue gas to a recirculation stream of calcined solids from the calciner and/or a second direct heat exchange from a flue gas to the carbonated solids arriving to the calciner, thereby reducing the heat requirements for calcination.