A critical review of V. A. Kunakh’s monography «Mobile genetic elements and plant genome plasticity» (Kiyv: Logos, 2013; 288 p. ISBN 978-966-171-721-2)
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A critical review of prof. V. A. Kunakh’s monography
«Mobile genetic elements and plant genome plasticity»
(Kyiv: Logos, 2013; 288 p. ISBN 978-966-171-721-2)
In 1984 R. B. Khesin published a summary of the capi-
tal «Inconstancy of genome», which dramatically alte-
red the traditional mentality of the vast majority of ge-
neticists in Russian-speaking territories. In this book,
R. B. Khesin expanded the meaning of the term «geno-
me», meaning by it (for eukaryotes) the totality of nuc-
lear and cytoplasmic DNA and RNA carriers with loca-
lized genetic elements in them, including some func-
tional (epigenetic) relations between these elements. In
other words, the term «genome» refers to all the heredi-
tary system of cell. The terms «genome» and «genoty-
pe» became in this extended sense semantically close,
partly even synonymous. This is true scope of the term
«genome», in instability of which significantly contri-
bute transposable elements.
In 1951 B. McÑlintock published in the works of the
most authoritative Symposium (Cold Spring Harbor),
the results of her 6-year-old works on mobile elements
(jumping genes). These works, however, were not ac-
cepted by the genetic community. Authoritative summa-
ry by A. Stertevant, published in 1965, even doesn’t
mention the work of B. MñÑlintok. Only in the 70s of
last century it became clear that the discovery of the mo-
bile elements is one of the main directions in the establi-
shment of the destiny of modern genetics.
Were discovered two classes of mobile genetic ele-
ments (MGE) – retrotransposons and DNA transposons.
Basic experimental studies were conducted on the clas-
sical objects of genetics – Drosophila and Arabidopsis.
Thus, in the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of Si-
berian Branch of RAS contributions of transposons in
increased activity and, hence, the magnitude of quan-
titative traits was successfully studied in Drosophila by
V. A. Ratner and L. A. Vasilyeva.
Until today the need for a summary of capital on the
role of MGE in the adaptation and evolution of plants
was acutely felt. And finally, such book was published.
It gives the volumetric proportions of the ÌGE in the
genomes of plants, the history of the discovery and stu-
dy of the ÌGE. The mechanisms of ÌGE and the rea-
sons for their transposition, the details of their structure,
evolution, biological significance and practical value
were described. Proofs of multiple functions of MGE in
cell regulation and evolution of the genome size, its
structure and plasticity were provided. The role of MGE
in mechanisms of higher plant adaptation, at both the in-
dividual and the population levels was shown. It is assu-
med that invasion of MGE and their further amplifi-
cation is one of the principal factors forming, ensuring
adaptation to variations of the environment, and in some
cases leading to a rapid adaptation to new environments.
Monography by V. A. Kunakh has a wide coverage
of plant MGE problems, exhaustive analysis of the ma-
jority of the principal publications on this issue (704
sources in the bibliography), logical presentation, go-
od, strictly scientific (but affordable) language.
This valuable book should be translated into Rus-
sian and English – it will be very useful for a wide range
of professionals both in Russian and in English-spea-
king countries. It adequately demonstrates the high le-
vel of Ukrainian plant genetics.
ISSN 0233–7657. Biopolymers and Cell. 2014. Vol. 30. N 2. P. 164
� Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, NAS of Ukraine, 2014
Academician of RAS, RANS, member of London Royal
Linnean Society, academician of Agricultural Academy
of Czechia, Agrarian Academy of Slovakia, academician
of Academy of Natural Sciences of Mongolia, professor
of genetics,
Victor Alexander Dragavtsev
27 January 2014,
Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
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