Epigenetic modifications of distinct sequences of the p1 regulatory gene specify tissue-specific expression patterns in maize

Genetics

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1059-1070

  Sekhon, Rajandeep S ^a   Peterson, Thomas ^b   Chopra, Surinder ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PERICARP; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED KERNEL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34249087989     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.066134     Document Type: Article

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