Polycomb proteins regulate the quantitative induction of VERNALIZATION INSENSITIVE 3 in response to low temperatures

Plant Journal

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 382-391

  Jean Finnegan, E ^a   Bond, Donna M ^a,d   Buzas, Diana M ^a,e   Goodrich, Justin ^b   Helliwell, Christopher A ^a   Tamada, Yosuke ^c,f   Yun, Jae Young ^c   Amasino, Richard M ^c   Dennis, Elizabeth S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bivalent domain; chromatin; FLOWERING LOCUS C; LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; nucleosome; PRC2

Indexed keywords

BIVALENT DOMAIN; CHROMATIN; FLOWERING LOCUS C; LIKE-HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; NUCLEOSOMES; PRC2;

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STEM CELLS;

PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FLF PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; HISTONE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LAZ2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, PLANT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TFL2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIN3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; VIP4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ACETYLATION; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; COLD; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UPREGULATION;

ACETYLATION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONES; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79251534726     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04428.x     Document Type: Review

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