Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on January 31, 2005.

Genetics, Vol. 169, 2383-2387, April 2005, Copyright © 2005
doi:10.1534/genetics.104.037358

Suppression of an Atypically Spliced Rice CACTA Transposon Transcript in Transgenic Plants

* Plant Research International, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
{dagger} Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Clusius Laboratory, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

1 Corresponding author: Plant Research International, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
E-mail: andy.pereira{at}wur.nl

OsES1, a rice homolog of the maize En/Spm transposon, is transcribed to produce TnpA-like and TnpD-like transcripts. However, an alternatively spliced form of the TnpA-like transcript, which was found to be suppressed in transgenic plants, was revealed to be due to atypical splicing of a Hipa-like CACTA transposon.