Extensive Maternal DNA Hypomethylation in the Endosperm of Zea mays

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 510-522

  Lauria, Massimiliano ^a,d   Rupe, Mary ^b   Guo, Mei ^b   Kranz, Erhard ^c   Pirona, Raul ^d   Viotti, Angelo ^e   Lund, Gertrud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d sezione Bergamo CRA   (Italy)

^e CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; TISSUE;

GENOMIC SCAN; LEAF TISSUE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EMBRYOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1042290675     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.017780     Document Type: Article

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