Multiple trans-sensing interactions affect meiotically heritable epigenetic states at the maize pl1 locus

Genetics

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 829-839

  Gross, Stephen M ^a   Hollick, Jay B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; PEPTIDE; PL 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERITABILITY; MAIZE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES;

ANTHOCYANINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, DOMINANT; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34250723437     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.072496     Document Type: Article

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