Heterochromatin has been oversimplified and even misunderstood. In particular, the
existence of heterochromatic genes is often overlooked. Diverse types of genes reside …

Constitutive heterochromatin represents a significant portion of eukaryotic genomes, but its
functions still need to be elucidated. Even in the most updated genetics and molecular …

Resistance to begomoviruses including bipartite Tomato mottle virus (ToMoV) and
monopartite Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) has been introgressed to cultivated …

Small RNAs regulate the genome by guiding transcriptional and post-transcriptional
silencing machinery to specific target sequences, including genes and transposable …

Antirrhinum majus DEFICIENS (DEF) and Arabidopsis thaliana APETALA3 (AP3) MADS box
proteins are required to specify petal and stamen identity. Sampling of DEF/AP3 homologs …

Abstract Background Endogenous pararetroviral sequences (EPRVs) are a recently
discovered class of repetitive sequences that is broadly distributed in the plant kingdom. The …

With the aim of determining the genetic basis of metabolic regulation in tomato fruit, we
constructed a detailed physical map of genomic regions spanning previously described …

Long terminal repeat retrotransposons are the most abundant mobile elements in the plant
genome and play an important role in the genome reorganization induced by environmental …

Examining the relationships among DNA sequence, meiotic recombination, and
chromosome structure at a genome-wide scale has been difficult because only a few …

Retrotransposons are mobile genetic elements that amplify throughout the genome and may
be important contributors of genetic diversity. Their distribution is influenced by element …