All families of transposable elements were active in the recent wheat genome evolution and polyploidy had no impact on their activity
Nathan Papon, Pauline Lasserre‐Zuber, Hélène Rimbert, Romain De Oliveira, Etienne Paux, Frédéric Choulet
The paper analyzes TE variability across wheat genomes and finds no increase in transposition rates due to polyploidy.
The Plant Genome · May 26, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics