Remembrance of things past: Chromatin remodeling in plant development

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2002, Pages 707-746

  Goodrich, Justin ^a   Tweedie, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fate; Imprinting; Methylation; Polycomb

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; PLANT DNA; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, PLANT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEACETYLATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; TRANSGENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; PLANTS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0036439462     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.18.040202.114836     Document Type: Review

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