Epigenetics: Beyond genes

Southern Forests

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-124

  Fossey, A ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Forestry; Gene regulation; Histone code hypothesis; Posttranscriptional gene silencing; RNA silencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956342137     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/SF.2009.71.2.6.821     Document Type: Article

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