Epigenetic regulation of photoperiodic flowering

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 788-791

  Takeno, Kiyotoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 azacytidine; CpG island; DNA methylation; Dwarfism; Epigenetics; Methylation sensitive amplified fragment length polymorphism; Photoperiodic flowering

Indexed keywords

IPOMOEA NIL; PERILLA FRUTESCENS; PERILLA FRUTESCENS VAR. CRISPA; SILENE; SILENE ARMERIA;

EID: 77956950514     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.7.11766     Document Type: Article

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