DNA methylation in plants

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 223-247

  Finnegan, E J ^a,b   Genger, R K ^a,b,c   Peacock, W J ^a,b   Dennis, E S ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Coop Res Centre for Plant Science ^*  (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Defense; Development; Dna methyltransferase; Epigenetics; Gene silencing

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL REGULATORY DOMAIN; ARABIDOPSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL METHYLTRANSFERASE DOMAIN; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC REGULATION; METHYLCYTOSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT;

EID: 0031740001     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.49.1.223     Document Type: Article

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