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. 2020 Nov;25(11):1062-1064.
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.08.003. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

Mobile Transposable Elements Shape Plant Genome Diversity

Saleh Alseekh  1 , Federico Scossa  2 , Alisdair R Fernie  3
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Mobile Transposable Elements Shape Plant Genome Diversity

Saleh Alseekh et al. Trends Plant Sci. 2020 Nov.
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Abstract

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.

Keywords: agronomic traits; quantitative variation; structural genome variants; tomato; transposable elements.

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