Paramutation: A process for acquiring trans-generational regulatory states

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 210-216

  Erhard, Karl F ^a   Hollick, Jay B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; ZEA MAYS;

EUKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79955093180     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2011.02.005     Document Type: Review

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