Cooperation of multiple chromatin modifications can generate unanticipated stability of epigenetic states in Arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-47

  Baubec, Tuncay ^a,c   Dinh, Huy Q ^a,b   Pecinka, Ales ^a   Rakic, Branislava ^a   Rozhon, Wilfried ^a   Wohlrab, Bonnie ^a,b   von Haeseler, Arndt ^b   Scheid, Ortrun Mittelsten ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 77950355575     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.072819     Document Type: Article

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