The endogenous transposable element Tgm9 is suitable for generating knockout mutants for functional analyses of soybean genes and genetic improvement in soybean

• Devinder Sandhu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: devinder.sandhu@ars.usda.gov (DS); mbhattac@iastate.edu (MKB)

  Affiliation USDA-ARS, US Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA, United States of America

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• Jayadri Ghosh,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

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• Callie Johnson,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States of America

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• Jordan Baumbach,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

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• Eric Baumert,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States of America

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• Tyler Cina,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI, United States of America

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• David Grant,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America, USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genomics Research Unit, Ames, IA, United States of America

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• Reid G. Palmer †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America, USDA-ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genomics Research Unit, Ames, IA, United States of America

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• Madan K. Bhattacharyya

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: devinder.sandhu@ars.usda.gov (DS); mbhattac@iastate.edu (MKB)

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5639-9706

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