Patterns of cytosine methylation in an elite rice hybrid and its parental lines, detected by a methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism technique

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 439-446

  Xiong, L Z ^a   Xu, C G ^a   Saghai Maroof, M A ^b   Zhang, Qifa ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Hybrid rice; Isoschizomers; PCR amplification; Tissue specificity

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE;

ARTICLE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; ISOSCHIZOMER; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; ORYZA SATIVA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033005346     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050986     Document Type: Article

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