Mobile Transposable Elements Shape Plant Genome Diversity.

Trends Plant Sci

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, Ruski Blvd. 139, Plovdiv, 4000, Bulgaria. Electronic address:

Published: November 2020

The presence of various types of structural variants, including transposons, make up the major part of the genomic differences among plant species. Two recent papers, Domínguez et al. and Alonge et al. explore specifically the impact that retrotransposons and other structural variants had on several tomato phenotypes of agricultural importance.

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