Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in plants

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1809, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 459-468

  Hauser, Marie Theres ^a   Aufsatz, Werner ^b   Jonak, Claudia ^b   Luschnig, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Genome stability; Heritable stress effects; Plant stress

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ACCLIMATIZATION; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOTIC STRESS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; INHERITANCE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSPOSON;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENOME, PLANT; HISTONES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MUTATION; PLANTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79961209906     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.03.007     Document Type: Review

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