Polycomb repression: It's all in the balance

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 412-414

  Finnegan, E J ^a   Dennis, E S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bivalent domain; FLC; Histone replacement; Trimethyl lysine 27; VIN3

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 44649127283     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.6.5439     Document Type: Article

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