Epigenetic reprogramming in plant sexual reproduction

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 613-624

  Kawashima, Tomokazu ^a,b   Berger, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HISTONE; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CENTROMERE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSPERM; EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE; FERTILIZATION; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEOSTASIS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MEIOSIS; MICROSPORE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLEN GERMINATION; POLLEN TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SPOROGENESIS; UNREDUCED GAMETE; ZYGOTE;

MAMMALIA;

ALLELES; ARABIDOPSIS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, PLANT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GAMETOGENESIS, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84906314062     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3685     Document Type: Review

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