Expression, imprinting, and evolution of rice homologs of the polycomb group genes

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 711-723

  Luo, Ming ^a   Platten, Damien ^a,b   Chaudhury, Abed ^a,c   Peacock, W J ^a   Dennis, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Vitagrain   (Bangladesh)

^c INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Development; Evolution; Imprinting; Panicle; Polycomb group protein; Pseudograin

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA; POACEAE;

EID: 68449086151     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssp036     Document Type: Article

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