The triploid endosperm genome of Arabidopsis adopts a peculiar, parental-dosage-dependent chromatin organization

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1782-1794

  Baroux, Célia ^a   Pecinka, Ales ^b,c   Fuchs, Jörg ^b   Schubert, Ingo ^b   Grossniklaus, Ueli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^c GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TISSUE;

CHROMOCENTERS; HETEROCHROMATIC FOCI;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34547679459     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.046235     Document Type: Article

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