An efficient immunodetection method for histone modifications in plants

Plant Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nic Can, Geovanny ^a   Hernández Castellano, Sara ^a   Kú González, Angela ^a   Loyola Vargas, Víctor M ^a   De la Peña, Clelia ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agave tequilana; Arabidopsis thaliana; Capsicum chinense; Cedrela odorata; Coffea canephora; Epigenetic mechanism; H3K4me3; H3K9me2; Histone H3; Immunodetection

Indexed keywords

AGAVE TEQUILANA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAPSICUM CHINENSE; CEDRELA; CEDRELA ODORATA; COFFEA CANEPHORA;

EID: 84890282721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-9-47     Document Type: Article

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