Insertional mutagenesis and promoter trapping in plants for the isolation of genes and the study of development |
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Authors: | Jennifer F. Topping Keith Lindsey |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Botany, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH Leicester, UK |
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Abstract: | Insertional mutagenesis, whether by transposable elements or T-DNAs fromAgrobacterium tumefaciens, provides a powerful experimental strategy to investigate the genetic basis of plant growth, metabolism and development. The linkage of an insertion element with a mutant phenotype of interest greatly facilitates the isolation of the wild-type gene. A further refinement of this strategy is the incorporation of promoter traps or enhancer traps into the insertion elements. These can act as functional tags of regulatory elements associated with genes in the host genome, potentially can improve further the efficiency of screening for target mutant phenotypes, and may provide valuable markers of specific cell types for developmental analysis. We discuss the use of these techniques to study the molecular genetics of plant development. |
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Keywords: | T-DNA insertional mutagenesis transposon tagging promoter trapping enhancer trapping plant gene expression plant development |
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