With Matsumura, plant pathologist ... have also been able to use the method to stop the deactivation of a transposon — a DNA-modifying element that can have an epigenetic effect.

By this definition, stem cells are particularly important for plant growth, because virtually all tissues of the plant descend from small groups of stem cells located in their growing apices ...

Although Spirodela has a genome of similar size and with similar transposon content as Arabidopsis thaliana—a widely used model plant—researchers have observed remarkably low levels of ...