Imprinting of the Polycomb group gene MEDEA serves as a ploidy sensor in Arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Erilova, Aleksandra ^a   Brownfield, Lynette ^a,b   Exner, Vivien ^a   Rosa, Marisa ^c   Twell, David ^b   Scheid, Ortrun Mittelsten ^c   Hennig, Lars ^a   Köhler, Claudia ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN MEDEA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; MEA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MESSENGER RNA; PHERES1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; ENDOSPERM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MEDEA GENE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PCG GENE; PLANT SEED; PLOIDY; SEED DEVELOPMENT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOIDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMOZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; POLLEN;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DIPLOIDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HOMOZYGOTE; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLOIDIES; POLLEN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS;

EID: 70349696284     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000663     Document Type: Article

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