The Dynamic Effects of Transposon Insertions on Transcription During Vegetative Development in .

The gene ( ) is involved in the auxin signaling pathway and stalk rot resistance in . In this study, we examined four transposon insertion lines (UFMu-03429, UFMu-00414, UFMu-08200, and AcDs-00676) targeting . Transcription of of the insertion lines either decreased or remained unchanged at the juvenile (V3) stage but increased significantly at the transition/adult (V6) stage. We also analyzed its upstream gene and downstream gene . Our results show that transposon insertions can induce stage-specific changes in gene expression that affect related biosynthetic pathways.