Transgenerational inheritance of induced changes inthe epigenetic state of chromatin in plants

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 145-152

  Saze, Hidetoshi ^a,b  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; DNA methylation; Environmental stress; Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; FLOWER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; INHERITANCE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLANT TISSUE; TRANSGENERATIONAL INHERITANCE; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PLANT;

CHROMATIN;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS;

EID: 84867911356     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 18805779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.87.145     Document Type: Article

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