Impact of transposable elements on polyploid plant genomes

CM Vicient, JM Casacuberta - Annals of Botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background The growing wealth of knowledge on whole-plant genome sequences is
highlighting the key role of transposable elements (TEs) in plant evolution, as a driver of …

[HTML][HTML] Parasitism and the retrotransposon life cycle in plants: a hitchhiker's guide to the genome

F Sabot, AH Schulman - heredity, 2006 - nature.com
LTR (long terminal repeat) retrotransposons are the main components of higher plant
genomic DNA. They have shaped their host genomes through insertional mutagenesis and …

Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

DNA sequencing and assembly Barry Kerrie 5 Lucas … - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Three subfamilies of grasses, the Ehrhartoideae, Panicoideae and Pooideae, provide the
bulk of human nutrition and are poised to become major sources of renewable energy. Here …

Frequent gene movement and pseudogene evolution is common to the large and complex genomes of wheat, barley, and their relatives

T Wicker, KFX Mayer, H Gundlach, M Martis… - The Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
All six arms of the group 1 chromosomes of hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum) were
sequenced with Roche/454 to 1.3-to 2.2-fold coverage and compared with similar data sets …

RNA-directed DNA methylation mediated by DRD1 and Pol IVb: a versatile pathway for transcriptional gene silencing in plants

B Huettel, T Kanno, L Daxinger, E Bucher… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2007 - Elsevier
RNA-directed DNA methylation, which is one of several RNAi-mediated pathways in the
nucleus, has been highly elaborated in the plant kingdom. RNA-directed DNA methylation …

Evolving together: Cassandra retrotransposons gradually mirror promoter mutations of the 5S rRNA genes

S Maiwald, L Mann, S Garcia… - Molecular Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The 5S rRNA genes are among the most conserved nucleotide sequences across all
species. Similar to the 5S preservation we observe the occurrence of 5S-related …

Brachypodium distachyon genomics for sustainable food and fuel production

MW Bevan, DF Garvin, JP Vogel - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2010 - Elsevier
Grass crops are the most important sources of human nutrition, and their improvement is
centrally important for meeting the challenges of sustainable agriculture, for feeding the …

[HTML][HTML] High-frequency recombination between members of an LTR retrotransposon family during transposition bursts

DH Sanchez, H Gaubert, HG Drost, NR Zabet… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Retrotransposons containing long terminal repeats (LTRs) form a substantial fraction of
eukaryotic genomes. The timing of past transposition can be estimated by quantifying the …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved structure and inferred evolutionary history of long terminal repeats (LTRs)

F Benachenhou, GO Sperber, E Bongcam-Rudloff… - Mobile DNA, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background Long terminal repeats (LTRs, consisting of U3-R-U5 portions) are
important elements of retroviruses and related retrotransposons. They are difficult to analyse …

[HTML][HTML] Long Tandem Arrays of Cassandra Retroelements and Their Role in Genome Dynamics in Plants

R Kalendar, O Raskina, A Belyayev… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Retrotransposable elements are widely distributed and diverse in eukaryotes. Their copy
number increases through reverse-transcription-mediated propagation, while they can be …