Methylation of histone H3 in euchromatin of plant chromosomes depends on basic nuclear DNA content

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 967-973

  Houben, Andreas ^a   Demidov, Dmitri ^a   Gernand, Dorota ^a   Meister, Armin ^a   Leach, Carolyn R ^a,b   Schubert, Ingo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Euchromatin; Genome size; Heterochromatin; Histone H3 methylation; Silencing

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DNA; PLANTS (BOTANY);

METHYLATION;

PROTEINS;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA, PLANT; EUCHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PLANT; HISTONES; METHYLATION; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0037356770     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01681.x     Document Type: Article

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