This article comments on:
Nicola Schmidt, Kathrin M. Seibt, Beatrice Weber, Trude Schwarzacher, Thomas Schmidt, and Tony Heitkam, Broken, silent, and in hiding: tamed endogenous pararetroviruses escape elimination from the genome of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris), Annals of Botany Volume 128, Issue 3, 26 August 2021, Pages 281–291,
Keywords: Beta vulgaris; chromosome; endogenous viruses; epigenetics.