Carpel, a new Arabidopsis epi-mutant of the SUPERMAN gene: Phenotypic analysis and DNA methylation status

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 961-972

  Rohde, Antje ^a   Grunau, Christoph ^b   De Beck, Lode ^a   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Rosenthal, André ^b   Boerjan, Wout ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epi mutant; SUPERMAN

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CARPEL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIMUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0033199127     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029629     Document Type: Article

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