DNA methylation causes predominant maternal controls of plant embryo growth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  FitzGerald, Jonathan ^a,c   Luo, Ming ^b   Chaudhury, Abed ^b   Berger, Frédéric ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; MET1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL ELONGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO GROWTH; ENDOSPERM; ENZYME INHIBITION; FLOWERING; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INTEGUMENT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PATERNALISM; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT SEED; SEED SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; SEEDS;

EID: 48649093404     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002298     Document Type: Article

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