RNA-directed DNA methylation: Mechanisms and functions

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 806-816

  Mahfouz, Magdy M ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; DNA demethylation; DNA methylation; Epialleles; Epigenetics; RdDM; Transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956975564     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.7.11695     Document Type: Article

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