Epigenetic repression of male gametophyte-specific genes in the arabidopsis sporophyte

Molecular Plant

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1176-1186

  Hoffmann, Robert D ^a   Palmgren, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

bioinformatics.; DNase I footprinting; epigenetics; gene repression; male gametophyte; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880711113     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sst100     Document Type: Article

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