Compromised telomere maintenance in hypomethylated Arabidopsis thaliana plants

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2919-2931

  Ogrocká, Anna ^a   Polanská, Pavla ^a   Majerová, Eva ^a   Janeba, Zlatko ^b   Fajkus, Jiří ^a,c   Fojtová, Miloslava ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DDM1 ENZYME; MET1 ENZYME; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; ATTERT GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; PLANTS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84899021027     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1285     Document Type: Article

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