Genomic imprinting: Insights from plants

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 187-208

  Gehring, Mary ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA demethylation; Imprinting; Plant reproduction; Polycomb; Transposable elements

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CHROMOMETHYLASE 3; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA POLYMERASE; PLANT DNA; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL EXPANSION; CHALAZAL ENDOSPERM; DEMETHYLATION; DNA DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOSPERM; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; FERTILIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALE GAMETOPHYTE; MAMMAL; MICROPYLAR ENDOSPERM; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL ENDOSPERM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, PLANT; ENDOSPERM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GAMETOGENESIS, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84888628324     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110711-155527     Document Type: Review

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