Variation in the epigenetic silencing of FLC contributes to natural variation in Arabidopsis vernalization response

Genes and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 3079-3083

  Shindo, Chikako ^a,c   Lister, Clare ^a   Crevillen, Pedro ^a   Nordborg, Magnus ^b   Dean, Caroline ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Epigenetic silencing; FLC; Histone modification; Natural variation; Vernalization response

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; LYSINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLOWERING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERNALIZATION;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COLD; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PLANT; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 33751237950     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.405306     Document Type: Article

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