Epigenetics, the role of DNA methylation in tree development

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 877, Issue , 2012, Pages 277-301

  Viejo, Marcos ^a,b   Santamaría, María E ^c   Rodríguez, José L ^a,b   Valledor, Luis ^d   Meijón, Mónica ^e   Pérez, Marta ^a,b   Pascual, Jesús ^a,b   Hasbún, Rodrigo ^f   Fraga, Mario Fernández ^g   Berdasco, María ^h   Toorop, Peter E ⁱ   Cañal, María J ^a,b   Fernández, Roberto Rodríguez ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^h BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBELL   (Spain)

ⁱ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Animals; DNA methylation; Histone modification; In vitro tissue culture; Plants; RNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AGING; CHROMATIN; CLONE; DNA METHYLATION; DORMANCY; EPIGENETICS; FLOWERING; GENETIC STABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS; TISSUE CULTURE; TREE; ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HISTONES; TREES;

EID: 84865994671     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-818-4_22     Document Type: Chapter

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