Deficiency in DNA methylation increases meiotic crossover rates in euchromatic but not in heterochromatic regions in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Melamed Bessudo, Cathy ^a   Levy, Avraham A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Centromere; Epigenetics; Genetic mapping

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DECREASED DNA METHYLATION 1 GENE; DNA METHYLATION; EUCHROMATIN; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CROSSES, GENETIC; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUCHROMATIN; GENOTYPE; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859620561     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120742109     Document Type: Article

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