Plant transposons: Contributors to evolution?

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 245-253

  Lönnig, Wolf Ekkehard ^a   Saedler, Heinz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altruistic and or selfish DNA; Origin of cultivated plants; Origin of ecotypes; Plant transposable elements; Redundant genes; Regressive evolution

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

AGRICULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PLANTS;

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ILEX COOKII; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0345367902     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00397-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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