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Rice Genetics IV - IRRI books - International Rice Research Institute

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that Tos17 is the major insertional mutagen among the rice retrotransposons examined.As shown in Figure 2, Tos17 is 4,114 bp long (Okamoto and Hirochika, unpublished)and carries one open reading frame (ORF) corresponding to Gag and PolkbControl3-mo-oldRegenerated plants9-mo-old16-mo-old23.1—9.4—6.6—4.4—2.3—2.0—Fig. 1. Activation of Tos17 by tissue culture. DNAs were prepared from leaves of normallypropagated rice plants (control) and plants regenerated from 3-, 9-, and 16-mo-oldcultures and analyzed by DNA blot hybridization with a Tos17-specific probe after digestionwith XbaI. (This figure is adapted from Hirochika et al 1996.)5’-LTR(138 bp)gagpol3’-LTR(138 bp)(integrase, reverse transcriptase, RNaseH)1RNA4,114120ORF625 3,960Fig. 2. Structure deduced from the complete nucleotide sequence and transcription ofTos17. Long terminal repeats (LTRs) are boxed. The thick arrow indicates the transcript ofTos17 and the open arrow indicates the longest open reading frame (ORF) starting withthe ATG. The pol gene encodes integrase, reverse transcriptase, and RNaseH.Retrotransposons of rice as a tool . . . 281

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