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Review
. 1996 Aug 1;6(8):959-61.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00638-3.

Turned on by stress. Plant retrotransposons

S R Wessler  1
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Review

Turned on by stress. Plant retrotransposons

S R Wessler. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

All known active plant retrotransposons are largely quiescent during development but activated by stresses, including wounding, pathogen attack and cell culture. This may reflect a survival strategy based on plant biology, or retrotransposons could be the stress-induced generators of genomic diversity proposed by McClintock.

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