The role of polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) in defense against pathogenic fungi

G De Lorenzo, R D'Ovidio… - Annual review of …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins (PGIPs) are extracellular plant proteins
capable of inhibiting fungal endopolygalacturonases (PGs). Plants have evolved different …

LTR-retrotransposons and MITEs: important players in the evolution of plant genomes

SR Wessler, TE Bureau, SE White - Current opinion in genetics & …, 1995 - Elsevier
Retrotransposons are an abundant and ancient component of plant genomes, yet recent
evidence indicates that element activity in many modern plants is restricted to times of stress …

Mut-7 of C. elegans, required for transposon silencing and RNA interference, is a homolog of Werner syndrome helicase and RNaseD

RF Ketting, THA Haverkamp, HGAM van Luenen… - Cell, 1999 - cell.com
While all known natural isolates of C. elegans contain multiple copies of the Tc1 transposon,
which are active in the soma, Tc1 transposition is fully silenced in the germline of many …

Sequencing of a rice centromere uncovers active genes

K Nagaki, Z Cheng, S Ouyang, PB Talbert, M Kim… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
Centromeres are the last frontiers of complex eukaryotic genomes, consisting of highly
repetitive sequences that resist mapping, cloning and sequencing. The centromere of rice …

grassy tillers1 promotes apical dominance in maize and responds to shade signals in the grasses

CJ Whipple, TH Kebrom, AL Weber… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The shape of a plant is largely determined by regulation of lateral branching. Branching
architecture can vary widely in response to both genotype and environment, suggesting …

Genome-wide comparative analysis of copia retrotransposons in Triticeae, rice, and Arabidopsis reveals conserved ancient evolutionary lineages and distinct …

T Wicker, B Keller - Genome research, 2007 - genome.cshlp.org
Although copia retrotransposons are major components of all plant genomes, the
evolutionary relationships between individual copia families and between elements from …

Knock-out mutants from an En-1 mutagenized Arabidopsis thaliana population generate phenylpropanoid biosynthesis phenotypes

E Wisman, U Hartmann, M Sagasser… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
A collection of 8,000 Arabidopsis thaliana plants carrying 48,000 insertions of the maize
transposable element En-1 has been generated. This population was used for reverse …

In vitro properties of the first ORF protein from mouse LINE-1 support its role in ribonucleoprotein particle formation during retrotransposition

VO Kolosha, SL Martin - Proceedings of the National …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
LINEs are transposable elements, widely distributed among eukaryotes, that move via
reverse transcription of an RNA intermediate. Mammalian LINEs have two ORFs (ORF1 and …

Plant transposable elements

R Kunze, H Saedler, WE Lönnig - Advances in botanical research, 1997 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses plant transposable elements. Eukaryotic
transposable elements are divided into two groups, according to their transposition …

The En/Spm transposable element of Zea mays contains splice sites at the termini generating a novel intron from a dSpm element in the A2 gene.

A Menssen, S Höhmann, W Martin, PS Schnable… - The EMBO …, 1990 - embopress.org
The A2 locus of Zea mays, identified as one of the genes affecting anthocyanin biosynthesis,
was cloned using the transposable elements rcy and dSpm as gene tags. The A2 gene …