Abstract
Variable phenotypes are common in nature and in laboratory materials. Guidelines and illustrations are presented to help distinguish developmental, environmental, disease, and somatic recombination-generated variation from the phenotypes caused by transposable elements.
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I thank Professor Zheng-Hui He for explaining green islands on white orchid flowers and pointing me to the extensive literature on this phenomenon in plant pathology. I am very grateful to those who supplied pictures as cited in the caption of Fig. 2. Research on plant development in my laboratory is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (PGRP 07-01880).
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Walbot, V. (2013). Distinguishing Variable Phenotypes from Variegation Caused by Transposon Activities. In: Peterson, T. (eds) Plant Transposable Elements. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1057. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-568-2_2
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