The 2HA line of Medicago truncatula has characteristics of an epigenetic mutant that is weakly ethylene insensitive

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kurdyukov, Sergey ^a,d   Mathesius, Ulrike ^b   Nolan, Kim E ^a   Sheahan, Michael B ^a   Goffard, Nicolas ^b,e   Carroll, Bernard J ^c   Rose, Ray J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e Enterome Bioscience   (France)

Author keywords

2HA seed line; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Ethylene insensitivity; Medicago truncatula; miRNA; Nodulation; Root growth; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; MICRORNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BARREL MEDIC; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT SEED; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEEDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902734225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-174     Document Type: Article

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