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The power of repetition

Nature Plants volume 9, pages 1377–1378 (2023)Cite this article

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The inclusion of retrotransposon long terminal repeats — and of other repeated sequences — enhances transfer DNA copy numbers in plant cells during transformation. Gene editing and homologous recombination-mediated gene targeting can therefore be improved by these means: however, the mechanism remains a mystery.

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Fig. 1: An alternative model for repeat-induced DNA amplification.

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