Epigenetic Switch from Posttranscriptional to Transcriptional Silencing Is Correlated with Promoter Hypermethylation

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1240-1250

  Fojtova, Miloslava ^a   Van Houdt, Helena ^b   Depicker, Anna ^b   Kovarik, Ales ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; PROTEINS; RNA; VEGETATION;

CYTOSINE METHYLATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0344099029     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.023796     Document Type: Article

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