EDITORIAL: MOBILE ELEMENTS AND PLANT GENOME EVOLUTION, COMPARATIVE ANALYZES AND COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS

Abstract

Multiple changes that occur constantly in the plant genome allow an organism to develop from a single-celled embryo to a multicellular organism. A significant part of these changes is associated with the recombination activity of numerous classes of interspersed repeats. These numerous families of interspersed repeats were often called “junk DNA” as first, they were not associated with any vital protein-coding processes. Now, more and more clues indicate that such repeated DNA might play major roles in the genome as functional “non-coding” DNA (Pennisi, 2012; Ariel and Manavella, 2021)