Plant Transposons and Genome Dynamics in Evolution (eBook)

Nina V. Fedoroff is Distinguished Professor of Biosciences, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and Evan Pugh Professor, Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Penn State University.

Part I. Natural history of transposons

Chapter 1. Discovery of plant transposable elements (Nina Fedoroff)
Chapter 2. Transposon structures, categories and numbers (Jeff Bennetzen and/or Enrico Coen)

Part II. Molecular genetics and epigenetics of plant transposons

Chapter 3. Molecular genetics and transposition mechanisms (Tom Peterson and/or George Coupland)
Chapter 4. Use of transposons as mutagens and gene tags (Jonathan Jones and Caroline Dean)

Part III. Epigenetic regulation of transposons

Chapter 5. Transposon epigenetics (Nina Fedoroff)
Chapter 6. Molecular biology of transposon epigenetic regulation (Rob Martienssen or Vicki Chandler)

Part IV. Transposons in development and physiology

Chapter 7. Transposons in gene regulation (Susan Wessler)
Chapter 8. Transposons in genome imprinting (Steve Henikoff)

Part V. Transposons in evolution

Chapter 9. Transposons and gene creation (Hugo Dooner)
Chapter 10. Transposons and genome evolution (Jeff Bennetzen)
Chapter 11. Transposons in allopolyploidization and speciation (Avi Levy

"I do love books where the text points toward the future
as well as distilling the past and present. This volume does
both." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1
December 2014)