Maize sex determination and abaxial leaf fates are canalized by a factor that maintains repressed epigenetic states

Developmental Biology

Volumn 308, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 462-473

  Parkinson, Susan E ^a   Gross, Stephen M ^a   Hollick, Jay B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Leaf polarity; Paramutation; Rmr6; Sex determination; Sk1; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN MOP1; PROTEIN SILKLESS; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; INFLORESCENCE; MAIZE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PISTIL; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DETERMINATION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34547660559     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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