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Plant Transposable Elements

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Editors:
  1. Oliver Nelson

    1. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

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  2. Claire M. Wilson

    1. The Council for Research Planning in Biological Sciences, Inc., USA

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  3. Cosette G. Saslaw

    1. The Council for Research Planning in Biological Sciences, Inc., USA

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Part of the book series: Basic Life Sciences (BLSC, volume 47)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Positive and Negative Regulation of the Suppressor-Mutator Element

    • N. Fedoroff, P. Masson, J. Banks, J. Kingsbury
    Pages 1-15

  3. Germ Line and Somatic Mutator Activity: Are they Functionally Related?

    • Donald S. Robertson, David W. Morris, Philip S. Stinard, Bradley A. Roth
    Pages 17-42

  4. The Mobile Element Systems in Maize

    • Peter A. Peterson
    Pages 43-68

  5. Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Transposable Elements in Antirrhinum Majus

    • Rosemary Carpenter, Andrew Hudson, Tim Robbins, Jorge Almeida, Cathie Martin, Enrico Coen
    Pages 69-80

  6. Recombinant Mutable Alleles of the Maize R Gene

    • Jerry L. Kermicle
    Pages 81-89

  7. Studies on Transposable Element Ac of Zea Mays

    • Peter Starlinger, Barbara Baker, George Coupland, Reinhard Kunze, Jürgen Laufs, Jeff Schell et al.
    Pages 91-99

  8. Maize Transposable Elements: Structure, Function, and Regulation

    • E. S. Dennis, E. J. Finnegan, B. H. Taylor, T. A. Peterson, A. R. Walker, W. J. Peacock
    Pages 101-113

  9. Structure and Function of the En/Spm Transposable Element System of Zea Mays: Identification of the Suppressor Component of En

    • Alfons Gierl, Heinrich Cuypers, Stephanie Lütticke, Andy Pereira, Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer, Sudhansu Dash et al.
    Pages 115-119

  10. Regulation of Mutator Activities in Maize

    • Virginia Walbot, Anne Bagg Britt, Kenneth Luehrsen, Margaret McLaughlin, Christine Warren
    Pages 121-135

  11. The Use of Mutator for Gene-Tagging: Cross-Referencing between Transposable Element Systems

    • N. S. Shepherd, W. F. Sheridan, M. G. Mattes, G. Deno
    Pages 137-147

  12. Advantages and Limitations of Using Spm as a Transposon Tag

    • Karen C. Cone, Robert J. Schmidt, Benjamin Burr, Frances A. Burr
    Pages 149-159

  13. Transposition of Ac in Tobacco

    • Barbara Baker, George Coupland, Reinhard Hehl, Nina Fedoroff, Horst Lörz, Peter Czernilofsky et al.
    Pages 161-174

  14. Transposition and Retrotransposition in Plants

    • Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer, Heinz Saedler
    Pages 175-187

  15. The Maintenance of Transposable Elements in Natural Populations

    • Brian Charlesworth
    Pages 189-212

  16. Deletions and Breaks Involving the Borders of the Ac Element in the bz-m2(Ac) Allele of Maize

    • Hugo K. Dooner, Edward Ralston, James English
    Pages 213-226

  17. Transposable Elements of Antirrhinum Majus

    • Hans Sommer, Reinhard Hehl, Enno Krebbers, Ralf Piotrowiak, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, Heinz Saedler
    Pages 227-235

  18. The State of DNA Modification within and Flanking Maize Transposable Elements

    • Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Willis E. Brown, Patricia S. Springer
    Pages 237-250

  19. Extrachromosomal Mu

    • Venkatesan Sundaresan
    Pages 251-259

  20. Molecular Characterization of Suppressor-Mutator (Spm)-Induced Mutations at the bronze-1 Locus in Maize: The bz-m13 Alleles

    • John W. Schiefelbein, Victor Raboy, Hwa-Yeong Kim, Oliver E. Nelson
    Pages 261-278
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Transposon tagging can work. Even though most of our understand­ ing about the factors that contribute to a successful tagging experiment has been accumulated from a limited number of experiments using different transposable elements in different genetic backgrounds, it is still possible to draw some conclusions regarding the best experimental strategies for gene tagging. In our experience, Spm has proved to be a good element for transposon tagging. The frequency of recovering mutable alleles in­ duced by Spm is not significantly different from that for Ac-Ds or for Mu 6 (summarized in Ref. 22) and varies from about 10- to 10=zr:-8pm has the unique advantage, however, in that all of the members of thiSfumily that have been examined thus far are homologous to each other at the DNA level. Therefore, by combining molecular analysis with genetic segre­ gation, it is possible to identify and isolate alleles that are due to insertions of either autonomous or nonautonomous Spm elements. There are definite steps one can take to increase the chances of de­ tecting a transposition into the gene of interest. The most important step is to select a genetic background in which the desired phenotype will be easy to screen. If the phenotype is not likely to be mutable, then tester lines should be constructed so as to contain flanking markers that can aid in subsequent segregation analyses.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

    Oliver Nelson

  • The Council for Research Planning in Biological Sciences, Inc., USA

    Claire M. Wilson, Cosette G. Saslaw

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Plant Transposable Elements

  • Editors: Oliver Nelson, Claire M. Wilson, Cosette G. Saslaw

  • Series Title: Basic Life Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5550-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5552-6Published: 12 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5550-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 404

  • Topics: Human Genetics

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