Genome-Wide Insertional Mutagenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2003

Publication Title

Science

Volume

301

Issue

5633

First Page

653

Last Page

657

Abstract

Over 225,000 independent Agrobacterium transferred DNA (T-DNA) insertion events in the genome of the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana have been created that represent near saturation of the gene space. The precise locations were determined for more than 88,000 T-DNA insertions, which resulted in the identification of mutations in more than 21,700 of the ∼29,454 predicted Arabidopsis genes. Genome-wide analysis of the distribution of integration events revealed the existence of a large integration site bias at both the chromosome and gene levels. Insertion mutations were identified in genes that are regulated in response to the plant hormone ethylene.

DOI

10.1126/science.1086391

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