Environmental and epigenetic regulation of Rider retrotransposons in tomato.

Transposable elements in crop plants are the powerful drivers of phenotypic variation that has been selected during domestication and breeding programs. In tomato, transpositions of the LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposon family Rider have contributed to various phenotypes of agronomical inte...

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Main Authors: Matthias Benoit, Hajk-Georg Drost, Marco Catoni, Quentin Gouil, Sara Lopez-Gomollon, David Baulcombe, Jerzy Paszkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-09-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008370