Mobile Transposable Elements Shape Plant Genome Diversity

Saleh Alseekh; Federico Scossa; Alisdair R Fernie

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2020.08.003

Mobile Transposable Elements Shape Plant Genome Diversity

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

Authors

Saleh Alseekh¹, Federico Scossa², Alisdair R Fernie³

Affiliations

¹ 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.
² Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Rome, Italy.
³ 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: fernie@mpimp-golm.mpg.de.

PMID: 32863103
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.08.003

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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MeSH terms

DNA Transposable Elements / genetics
Genome, Plant / genetics
Genomics
Retroelements / genetics
Solanum lycopersicum* / genetics

Substances

DNA Transposable Elements
Retroelements