| T-DNA* |
Random sequence insertion |
88.8% (6645 insertions of 7480) (Sallaud et al., 2004) |
Plant development and metabolism (Basu et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2017a; Hinrichs et al., 2017; Lee et al., 2017; Li et al., 2017c; Qiao et al., 2017; Zeng et al., 2017; Cho et al., 2018; Gong et al., 2018; Nguyen et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018a; Wang et al., 2018b; Wu et al., 2018; Zhou et al., 2018; Huang et al., 2019a; Luo et al., 2019; Moon et al., 2019; Song et al., 2019; Yuan et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2019) |
Stability of the insertion through multiple generations |
Necessary specialized structure (physical and technical). |
| Plant chemical element transporters (Wu et al., 2017;Kim et al., 2018a; Oda et al., 2018) |
| Biotic stress resistance (Vo et al., 2018; Yoo et al., 2018; Ma et al., 2019) |
| Yield and quality (Um et al., 2018; Xiao et al., 2018a; Yang et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018c; Huang et al., 2019b) |
| Abiotic stress tolerance (Almadanim et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2018; Kwon et al., 2018; Giri et al., 2018; Li et al., 2018d; Redillas et al., 2019; Tang et al., 2019; Xia et al., 2018; Xiao et al., 2018b; Zhang et al., 2018; Deng et al., 2019; Qin et al., 2019; Zhan et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2019) |
| Transposon |
Random sequence insertion |
51% (in 4413 families) (Kolesnik et al., 2004) |
Plant development and metabolism (Ramamoorthy et al., 2018; Ke et al., 2019); |
Ac/Ds transpose at high frequencies in rice. |
| Retrotransposon |
Random sequence insertion |
1 insertion each 100-kb (Miyao et al., 2003) |
Plant development and metabolism (Hori et al., 2016; Mieulet et al., 2016; Chen et al., 2017b) |
Insertion events are more frequent in genic regions. |
| Yield and quality (Hirose et al., 2017; Imagawa et al., 2018) |
| Industrial quality (Nakata et al., 2018) |
