Tag1 is an autonomous transposable element that shows somatic excision in both Arabidopsis and tobacco.

doi:10.1105/tpc.9.10.1745

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Tag1 is an autonomous transposable element that shows somatic excision in both Arabidopsis and tobacco.

The Plant cell - 1 Oct 1997

Frank M J, Liu D, Tsay Y F, Ustach C, Crawford N M

Abstract excerpt

Tag1 is a transposable element first identified as an insertion in the CHL1 gene of Arabidopsis. The chl1::Tag1 mutant originated from a plant (ecotype Landsberg erecta) that had been transformed with the maize transposon Activator (Ac), which is distantly related to Tag1. Genomic analysis of unt...

Topics

Arabidopsis
Caulimovirus
DNA Transposable Elements
Glucuronidase
Phenotype
Plants, Toxic
Promoter Regions, Genetic
Nicotiana
Transposases

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