Transgenerational adaptation of Arabidopsis to stress requires DNA methylation and the function of dicer-like proteins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Boyko, Alex ^a   Blevins, Todd ^b,d   Yao, Youli ^a   Golubov, Andrey ^a   Bilichak, Andriy ^a   Ilnytskyy, Yaroslav ^a   Hollander, Jens ^c   Meins Jr , Frederick ^c   Kovalchuk, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; DICER; DNA; PROTEIN DCL2; PROTEIN DCL3; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FLAGELLIN; LUCIFERASE; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COLD; DNA METHYLATION; FLOODING; GENE SILENCING; HEAT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT STRESS; PROGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRESS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAMMALIA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

ARABIDOPSIS; AZACITIDINE; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; GLUCURONIDASE; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE III; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 77949864217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009514     Document Type: Article

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