1. Historical Overview of Transposable Element Research
Peter A Peterson
2. Distinguishing Variable Phenotypes from Variegation Caused by Transposon Activities
Virginia Walbot
3. Using Transposons for Genetic Mosaic Analysis of Plant Development
Philip W. Becraft
4. Survey of Natural and Transgenic Gene Markers Used to Monitor Transposon Activity
Lakshminarasimhan Krishnaswamy, Thomas Peterson
5. Molecular Biology of Maize Ac/Ds Elements - an Overview
Katina Lazarow, My-Linh Du and Reinhard Kunze
6. Gene Tagging with Engineered Ds Elements in Maize
Yubin Li, Gregorio Segal, Qinghua Wang, and Hugo K. Dooner
7. Plant Regeneration Methods for Rapid Generation of a Large Scale of Ds Transposant Population in Rice
Yuan Hu Xuan, Jin Huang, Gihwan Yi, Dong-Soo Park, Soo Kwon Park, Moo Young Eun, Doh Won Yun, Gang-Seob Lee, Tae Ho Kim, Chang-deok Han
8. Isolation of Sequences Flanking Ac Insertion Sites by Ac Casting
Dafang Wang and Thomas Peterson
9. Regulation of the Mutator System of Transposons in Maize
Damon Lisch
10. Using MuDR/Mu Transposons in Directed Tagging Strategies
Virginia Walbot and Julia Qüesta
11. Genetic and Molecular Analysis of UniformMu Transposon Insertion Lines
Donald R. McCarty, Masaharu Suzuki, Charles Hunter, Wayne T. Avigne, and Karen E. Koch
12. Digestion-Ligation-Amplification (DLA): A Simple Genome Walking Method to Amplify Unknown Sequences Flanking Mutator (Mu) Transposons and Thereby Facilitate Gene Cloning
Sanzhen Liu, An-Ping Hsia, Patrick S. Schnable
13. Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics of CACTA Elements
Nina V. Fedoroff
14. Activation Tagging Using the Maize En-I Transposon System for the Identification of Abiotic Stress Resistance Genes in Arabidopsis
Amal Harb and Andy Pereira
15. Reverse Genetics in Rice using Tos17Delphine Mieulet, Anne Diévart, Gaëtan Droc, Nadège Lanau and Emmanuel Guiderdoni
16. Identification and Applications of the Petunia Class II Act1/dTph1 Transposable Element System 