DNA methylation in plants

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 301, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-122

  Vanyushin, B F ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; 6 N METHYLADENINE; ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; METHYL GROUP; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYTOHORMONE; PLANT DNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

AGE; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIUM; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMATIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOWERING; FUNGUS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GERMINATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VIRUS;

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; HISTONES; PLANTS; RNA; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC);

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 29644431853     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31390-7_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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