Directed crop breeding using jumping genes

Project Information

BUNGEE

Grant agreement ID: 725701

DOI 10.3030/725701

Project closed

EC signature date 16 May 2017

Start date 1 June 2017

End date 31 May 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 965 624,99

EU contribution € 1 965 624,99

Coordinated by

EIDGENOESSISCHES DEPARTEMENT FUER WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG
Switzerland

Publications

Book chapters (1)

Transposable Elements as Tool for Crop Improvement

Author(s): Michael Thieme, Etienne Bucher
Published in: Advances in Botanical Research, Issue 88, 2018, Page(s) 165-202, ISBN 9780128154038
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/bs.abr.2018.09.001

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Genomic impact of stress-induced transposable element mobility in Arabidopsis

Author(s): David Roquis, Marta Robertson, Liang Yu, Michael Thieme, Magdalena Julkowska, Etienne Bucher
Published in: Nucleic Acids Research, 2021, ISSN 0305-1048
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab828

The plant mobile domain proteins MAIN and MAIL1 interact with the phosphatase PP7L to regulate gene expression and silence transposable elements in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Author(s): Melody Nicolau; Melody Nicolau; Nathalie Picault; Nathalie Picault; Julie Descombin; Julie Descombin; Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi; Suhua Feng; Etienne Bucher; Steven E. Jacobsen; Jean-Marc Deragon; Jean-Marc Deragon; Jean-Marc Deragon; James A. Wohlschlegel; Guillaume Moissiard; Guillaume Moissiard
Published in: PLOS Genetics, Issue 5, 2020, ISSN 1553-7390
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008324

ecc_finder: A Robust and Accurate Tool for Detecting Extrachromosomal Circular DNA From Sequencing Data

Author(s): Panpan Zhang, Haoran Peng, Christel Llauro, Etienne Bucher and Marie Mirouze
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.743742

Inhibition of RNA polymerase II allows controlled mobilisation of retrotransposons for plant breeding

Author(s): Michael Thieme, Sophie Lanciano, Sandrine Balzergue, Nicolas Daccord, Marie Mirouze, Etienne Bucher
Published in: Genome Biology, Issue 18/1, 2017, ISSN 1474-760X
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1265-4

The NRPD1 N-terminus contains a Pol IV-specific motif that is critical for genome surveillance in Arabidopsis

Author(s): Laura Ferrafiat, David Pflieger, Jasleen Singh, Michael Thieme, Marcel Böhrer, Christophe Himber, Aude Gerbaud, Etienne Bucher, Craig S Pikaard, Todd Blevins
Published in: Nucleic Acids Research, Issue 47/17, 2019, Page(s) 9037-9052, ISSN 0305-1048
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz618

Extrachromosomal circular DNA: A neglected nucleic acid molecule in plants

Author(s): Haoran Peng, Marie Mirouze, Etienne Bucher
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 69, 2022, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2022.102263

Experimentally heat-induced transposition increases drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Author(s): Michael Thieme, Arthur Brêchet, Yann Bourgeois, Bettina Keller, Etienne Bucher, Anne C. Roulin
Published in: New Phytologist, 2022, ISSN 1469-8137
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18322