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Identification and Exploitation of Petunia Transposable Elements: A Brief History

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Although it is generally accepted that transposable genetic elements are ubiquitous, their full mutagenic capacity has been exploited in only a few species. Among plants these are, most notably, maize, Antirrhinum and Petunia. Representatives of all three major groups of class II elements, viz., HAT-, CACTA- and Mutator-like elements, have been identified in Petunia. Here we describe the Petunia two-element Act1-dTph1 system and the development of its application in forward and reverse genetics studies.

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Gerats, T. (2009). Identification and Exploitation of Petunia Transposable Elements: A Brief History. In: Gerats, T., Strommer, J. (eds) Petunia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-84796-2_17

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