Plant Repeat Database
In plants, ploidy levels and repetitive sequences contribute
significantly to genome size. A number of different repetitive
sequences have been reported in the plant genome and these can be
classified into super-classes, classes, and subclasses based on
structure and sequence composition. The transposable element (TEs)
super-class includes retrotransposons, transposons, and miniature
inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs). Other repetitive
sequences are associated the centromere and telomere. Another
super-class of repetitive sequences are rDNAs which encode the
structural RNA components of ribosomes.
Data for this project can be found at http://plantrepeats.plantbiology.msu.edu/index.html.
