Maintenance of CpG methylation is essential for epigenetic inheritance during plant gametogenesis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-69

  Saze, Hidetoshi ^a   Scheid, Ortrun Mittelsten ^a   Paszkowski, Jerzy ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CPG ISLANDS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038670503     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1138     Document Type: Article

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