CENH3 for Establishing and Maintaining Centromeres

Plant Centromere Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 67-82

  Lermontova, Inna ^a   Schubert, Ingo ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alloploid, CENH3 duplication; CENH3 activity deregulation; CENH3 in plant species; CENH3 in pollen nuclei; CENH3 loading in centromeres; CENH3, and centromeric DNA; CENH3, by E2F transcription; CENH3, detection evolution; Centromeres and CENH3; Kinetochore epigenetic regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886531562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118525715.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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