Epigenetics and Development in Plants. Green Light to Convergent Innovations.

Current Topics in Developmental Biology

Volumn 104, Issue , 2013, Pages 189-222

  Grimanelli, Daniel ^a   Roudier, François ^b  

^a University of Montpellier 2   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Development; Epigenetics; Epigenome; Histone; Methylation; Plant; Reprogrammation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876328430     PISSN: 00702153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-416027-9.00006-1     Document Type: Chapter

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