Meiotically and mitotically stable inheritance of DNA hypomethylation induced by ddm1 mutation of Arabidopsis thaliana

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 831-838

  Kakutani, Tetsuji ^a   Munakata, Kyoko ^a   Richards, Eric J ^b   Hirochika, Hirohiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HERITABILITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032939382     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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