supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC grants 31722048 and 31630068);the National Program on Key Research Project (2016YFD0100307);the Science and Technology Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences;the Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, China;Prospect of Shandong Seed Project, China (Shandong Gov. [2015] Reference No. 212)
Long terminal repeat retrotransposons(LTR-RTs) are a predominant group of plant transposable elements(TEs) that are an important component of plant genomes. A large number of LTR-RTs have been annotated in the genomes...