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BMC Plant Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access A putative autonomous 20.5 kb-CACTA transposon insertion in an F3H allele identifies a new CACTA transposon subfamily in Glycine max Gracia Zabala and Lila Vodkin* Address: Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA Email: Gracia Zabala - g-zabala@; Lila Vodkin* - l-vodkin@ * Corresponding author Published: 2 December 2008 Received: 25 July 2008 Accepted: 2 December 2008 BMC Plant Biology 2008, 8:124 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-8-124 This article is available from: /1471-2229/8/124 © 2008 Zabala and Vodkin; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The molecular organization of very few genetically defined CACTA transposon systems have been characterized thoroughly as those of Spm/En in maize, Tam1 of Antirrhinum majus Candystripe1 (Cs1) from Sorghum bicolor and CAC1 from Arabidopsis thaliana, for example. To date, only defective deletion derivatives of CACTA elements have been described for soybean, an economically important plant species whose genome sequence will be completed in 2008. Results: We identified a 20.5 kb insertion in a soybean flavonoid 3-hydroxylase (F3H) gene representing the t* allele (stable gray trichome color) whose origin traces to a single mutable chimeric plant displaying both tawny and