Editing Mutagenesis (section)

=== Insertional mutagenesis ===
{{Main|Insertional mutagenesis}}

[[Transposon]]s and [[virus]]es or retrotransposons may insert DNA sequences into coding regions or functional elements of a gene and result in inactivation of the gene.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mohanasundaram |first1=Boominathan |last2=Rajmane |first2=Vyankatesh B. |last3=Jogdand |first3=Sukanya V. |last4=Bhide |first4=Amey J. |last5=Banerjee |first5=Anjan K. |title=Agrobacterium-mediated Tnt1 mutagenesis of moss protonemal filaments and generation of stable mutants with impaired gametophyte |journal=Molecular Genetics and Genomics |date=June 2019 |volume=294 |issue=3 |pages=583–596 |doi=10.1007/s00438-019-01532-4 |pmid=30689096|s2cid=59304089 }}</ref>