Science News, May 25th, 1985
Pieces of DNA that move from one position to another within chromosomes, turning off or on the more sedentary genes they invade, have been well studied in maize, but few have been described in other plants. Now Lila O. Vodkin, Patsy R. Rhodes and their colleagues at ARS report the first evidence for such a mobile element, often called a transposon, in soybean plants. They believe transposons will be useful for identifying and isolating plant genes of agricultural interest, and transposons may eventually serve as a genetic engineering tool for carrying genes from plant to plant.
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