Epigenetic variation: Origin and transgenerational inheritance

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 562-567

  Becker, Claude ^a   Weigel, Detlef ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PLANTS;

EID: 84869496854     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2012.08.004     Document Type: Review

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