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Transposable elements underlie genetic adaptation

The insertion of the stress-responsive transposable element (TE) ONSEN into a critical flowering regulator gene confers an adaptive response to herbicide treatment in Arabidopsis thaliana natural accessions.

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Fig. 1: The ONSEN-driven environmental regulation of FLC.

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