Generation of a luciferase-based reporter for CHH and CG DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Silence

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dinh, Thanh Theresa ^a   O'Leary, Michael ^a,b   Won, So Youn ^a   Li, Shengben ^a   Arroyo, Lorena ^a   Liu, Xigang ^a   Defries, Andrew ^a   Zheng, Binglian ^a,c   Cutler, Sean R ^a   Chen, Xuemei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AGO4; DNA methylation; DRM2; Luciferase; MET1; Methotrexate; RdDM

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; GUANINE; METHOTREXATE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARGONAUTE 4 GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1 GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRM2 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LUCIFERASE BASED REPORTER TRANSGENE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84876195987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1758907X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-907X-4-1     Document Type: Article

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