Epigenetics, a mode for plants to respond to abiotic stresses

Frontiers in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 477-481

  Qiao, Weihua ^a   Fan, Liumin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

chromatin; environmental stress; Epigenetics; genome; histone modification

Indexed keywords

EID: 81555195465     PISSN: 16747984     EISSN: 16747992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11515-011-1128-4     Document Type: Review

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