Plant Transposable Elements : Methods and Protocols - Peterson, Thomas; SpringerLink (Online service) (Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2013)
Historical Overview of Transposable Element Research -- Distinguishing Variable Phenotypes from Variegation Caused by Transposon Activities -- Using Transposons for Genetic Mosaic Analysis of Plant Development -- Survey of Natural and Transgenic Gene Markers Used to Monitor Transposon Activity -- Molecular Biology of Maize Ac/Ds Elements - an Overview -- Gene Tagging with Engineered Ds Elements in Maize -- Plant Regeneration Methods for Rapid Generation of a Large Scale of Ds Transposant Population in Rice -- Isolation of Sequences Flanking Ac Insertion Sites by Ac Casting -- Regulation of the Mutator System of Transposons in Maize -- Using MuDR/Mu Transposons in Directed Tagging Strategies -- Genetic and Molecular Analysis of UniformMu Transposon Insertion Lines -- Digestion-Ligation-Amplification (DLA): A Simple Genome Walking Method to Amplify Unknown Sequences Flanking Mutator (Mu) Transposons and Thereby Facilitate Gene Cloning -- Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics of CACTA Elements -- Activation Tagging Using the Maize En-I Transposon System for the Identification of Abiotic Stress Resistance Genes in Arabidopsis -- Reverse Genetics in Rice using Tos17 -- Identification and Applications of the Petunia Class II Act1/dTph1 Transposable Element System -- Transposon Display: A Versatile Method for Transposon Tagging -- Massive Indexed Parallel Identification of Transposon Flanking Sequences -- Use of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technologies for the Genome-wide Detection of Transposition -- Overview of Repeat Annotation and de novo Repeat Identification -- Computational Methods for Identification of DNA Transposons -- TEnest 2.0: Computational Annotation and Visualization of Nested Transposable Elements.
Keywords: Plant science; Botany; Plant genetics; Plant Sciences; Plant Genetics and Genomics