Maternal control of seed development

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 381-386

  Chaudhury, Abdul M ^a   Berger, Frederic ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Claud Bernard University Lyon 1   (France)

Author keywords

Embryo; Endosperm; Epigenetic; FIS genes; Imprinting; Methylation

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSPERM; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OVULE; PLANT REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SPOROPHYTE;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0035782666     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.2001.0267     Document Type: Article

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