Locus-Specific Requirements of DDR Complexes for Gene-Body Methylation of TAS Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1048-1052

  Kanno, Tatsuo ^a,b   Yoshikawa, Manabu ^b   Habu, Yoshiki ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

DDR complex; DRD1; Epigenetics; RdDM; tasiRNA

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84880791854     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-012-0554-z     Document Type: Article

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