Abiotic Stress Phenotypes Are Associated with Conserved Genes Derived from Transposable Elements.

ABSTRACT: Plant phenomics offers unique opportunities to accelerate our understanding of gene function and plant response to different environments, and may be particularly useful for studying previously uncharacterized genes. One important type of poorly characterized genes is those derived from transposable elements (TEs), which have departed from a mobility-driven lifestyle to attain new adaptive roles for the host (exapted TEs). We used phenomics approaches, coupled with reverse genetics, to analyze T-DNA insertion mutants of both previously reported and novel protein-coding exapted TEs in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We show that mutations in most of these exapted TEs result in phenotypes, particularly when challenged by abiotic stress. We built statistical multi-dimensional phe

SUBMITTER: Joly-Lopez Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5715367 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature