Plant Transposon Lab

Background references on transposon tagging


Baker, B., Schell, J., Lorz, H., and Fedoroff, N. V. (1986) Transposition of the maize controlling element Activator in tobacco. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83, 4844-4848.

Dooner, H. K., and Belachew, A. (1989) Transposition pattern of the maize element Ac from the bz-m2(Ac) allele. Genetics 122, 447-457.

Fedoroff, N., Wessler, S., and Shure, M. (1983) Isolation of the transposable maize controlling elements Ac and Ds. Cell 35, 243-251.

Fedoroff, N. (1989) Maize transposable elements. In Mobile DNA, (M. Howe and D. Berg eds.) Washington: American Society for Microbiology, pp. 375-411.

Greenblatt, I. M. (1984) A chromosome replication pattern deduced from pericarp phenotypes resulting from movements of the transposable element, Modulator, in maize. Genetics 108, 471-485.

Greenblatt, I. M., and Brink, R. A. (1963) Transpositions of Modulator in maize into divided and undivided chromosome segments. Nature 197, 412-413.

Jones, J. D., Carland, F., Lim, E., Ralston, E., and Dooner, H. K. (1990) Preferential transposition of the maize element Activator to linked chromosomal locations in tobacco. Plant Cell 2, 701-707.

Hehl, R. (1994) Transposon tagging in heterologous host plants. TIG 10, 385-6.

Houba-Herin, N., Becker, D., Post, A., Larondelle, Y., and Starlinger, P. (1990) Excision of a Ds-like maize transposable element (Ac delta) in a transient assay in Petunia is enhanced by a truncated coding region of the transposable element Ac. Mol. Gen. Genet. 224, 17-23.

Izawa, T., Miyazaki, C., Yamamoto, M., Terada, R., Iida, S., and Shimamoto, K. (1991) Introduction and transposition of the maize transposable element Ac in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Mol. Gen. Genet. 227, 391-6.

James, D., Jr., Lim, E., Keller, J., Plooy, I., Ralston, E., and Dooner, H. K. (1995) Directed tagging of the Arabidopsis FATTY ACID ELONGATION1 (FAE1) gene with the maize transposon Activator. Plant Cell 7, 309-319.

Laufs, J., Wirtz, U., Kammann, M., Matzeit, V., Schaefer, S., Schell, J., Czernilofsky, A. P., Baker, B., and Gronenborn, B. (1990) Wheat dwarf virus Ac/Ds vectors: expression and excision of transposable elements introduced into various cereals by a viral replicon. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87, 7752-6.

McClintock, B. (1951) Chromosome organization and genic expression. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 16, 13-47.

Shimamoto, K., Miyazaki, C., Hashimoto, H., Izawa, T., Itoh, K., Terada, R., Inagaki, Y., and Iida, S. (1993) Trans-activation and stable integration of the maize transposable element Ds cotransfected with the Ac transposase gene in transgenic rice plants. Mol. Gen. Genet. 239, 354-60.

Van Sluys, M. A., Tempe, J., and Fedoroff, N. (1987) Transposition of the maize Activator element in Arabidopsis thaliana and Daucus carota. EMBO J. 13, 3881-3889.

Walbot, V. (1992) Strategies for mutagenesis and gene cloning using transposon tagging and T-DNA insertional mutagenesis. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 43, 49-82.

Wessler, S. R., Baran, G., Varagona, M., and Dellaporta, S. L. (1986) Excision of Ds produces waxy proteins with a range of enzymatic activities. EMBO J. 5, 2427-32.

Yoder, J. I., Palys, J., Alpert, K., and Lassner, M. (1988) Ac transposition in transgenic tomato plants. Mol. Gen. Genet. 213, 291-296.


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