Fragments of the key flowering gene <it>GIGANTEA </it>are associated with helitron-type sequences in the Pooideae grass <it>Lolium perenne</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Helitrons are a class of transposable elements which have been identified in a number of species of plants, animals and fungi. They are unique in their proposed rolling-circle mode of replication, have a highly variable copy-number a...

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Main Authors: Langdon Tim, Thomas Ann, Huang Lin, Farrar Kerrie, King Julie, Armstead Ian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-06-01
Series:BMC Plant Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/9/70