Arabidopsis thaliana plants (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Arabidopsis thaliana plants

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Plants must keep mobile genetic elements called transposons in check; otherwise, seedlings develop poorly. SUVH9 is a protein that helps silence transposons by adding epigenetic modifications to them. These images show 4-week old Arabidopsis thaliana plants that grew with functional SUVH9 enzyme (left) and without functional SUVH9 enzyme (right).

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Parent/Martienssen lab, CSHL/2021

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