Plant Transposable Elements Biology and Biotechnology

This book offers a framework and functions of various ubiquitous mobile transposable factors (TEs), or jumping genes, which translocate in diverse genomic locations inside the cell of a plant. Discovered in maize in the late 1940s by Barbara McClintock (before the discovery of DNA itself), TEs have been recognized with mystification since the beginning. The organismal genomes have chromosomes made of double-stranded DNA helix, which is the heart of stability and integrity of cells