Chromatin reprogramming during the somatic-to-reproductive cell fate transition in plants

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 4008-4019

  She, Wenjing ^a   Grimanelli, Daniel ^b   Rutowicz, Kinga ^c   Whitehead, Marek W J ^a   Puzio, Marcin ^c   Kotliński, Maciej ^c   Jerzmanowski, Andrzej ^c   Baroux, Célia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chromatin modifications; Heterochromatin; Histone variants; Megaspore mother cell; Plant reproduction

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETOPHYTE; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEGASPORE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN MODIFICATIONS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE VARIANTS; MEGASPORE MOTHER CELL; PLANT REPRODUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; HISTONES; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84884271608     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.095034     Document Type: Article

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