Transgenerational maintenance of transgene body CG but not CHG and CHH methylation

Epigenetics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1071-1078

  Dalakouras, Athanasios ^a   Dadami, Elena ^a   Zwiebel, Michele ^a   Krczal, Gabi ^a   Wassenegger, Michael ^a,b  

^a AlPlanta Institute for Plant Research   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bisulfite sequencing; Chromatin modification; Methyltransferases; Nicotiana tabacum; Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd); RNA directed DNA methylation (RdDM); Small RNAs

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; HISTONE H3;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; VIROID; VIROIDAL PLANT DISEASE;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; POTATO SPINDLE TUBER VIROID; VIROIDS;

EID: 84866128954     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.21644     Document Type: Article

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