Roles, and establishment, maintenance and erasing of the epigenetic cytosine methylation marks in plants

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-666

  Kumar, Sushil ^a,b   Kumari, Renu ^a,c   Sharma, Vishakha ^a,b   Sharma, Vinay ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b SKA Institution for Research Education and Development (SKAIRED)   (India)

^c BANASTHALI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

cytosine methylation; Darwinian cum Lamarckian evolution; DNA demethylation mechanisms; DNA methylation mechanisms; epialleles; epigenetic modifications; genetic recombination; heritable induced defence; mutational hotspots; transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

LAMARCKIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

CYTOSINE; PLANT DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT GENOME;

CENTROMERE; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899531899     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 09737731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-013-0273-8     Document Type: Article

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