Genetic perturbation of the maize methylome

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4602-4616

  Li, Qing ^a   Eichten, Steven R ^a   Hermanson, Peter J ^a   Zaunbrecher, Virginia M ^b   Song, Jawon ^c   Wendt, Jennifer ^d   Rosenbaum, Heidi ^d   Madzima, Thelma F ^e   Sloan, Amy E ^e   Huang, Ji ^e   Burgess, Daniel L ^d   Richmond, Todd A ^d   McGinnis, Karen M ^e   Meeley, Robert B ^f   Danilevskaya, Olga N ^f   Vaughn, Matthew W ^c   Kaeppler, Shawn M ^b   Jeddeloh, Jeffrey A ^d   Springer, Nathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d Roche NimbleGen Inc   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DuPont Ag Biotechnology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ZEA MAYS;

CHROMOMETHYLASE; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; CROSS BREEDING; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; MUTATION; PLANT GENE;

ALLELES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MUTATION; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84922208635     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.133140     Document Type: Article

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