Epigenetic maintenance of the vernalized state in Arabidopsis thaliana requires LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 706-710

  Sung, Sibum ^a   He, Yuehui ^a,d   Eshoo, Tifani W ^a   Tamada, Yosuke ^a   Johnson, Lianna ^b   Nakahigashi, Kenji ^c,e   Goto, Koji ^c,e   Jacobsen, Steve E ^b   Amasino, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Research Institute for Biological Science OKAYAMA   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e Institute for Advanced Biosciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CHROMATIN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FLOWER; FLOWERING; FLOWERING LOCUS C GENE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REPRESSOR GENE; SPRING; VERNALIZATION; WINTER;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 33745237157     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1795     Document Type: Article

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