The elucidation of stress memory inheritance in Brassica rapa plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Bilichak, Andriy ^a   Ilnytskyy, Yaroslav ^b   Woycicki, Rafal ^b   Kepeshchuk, Nina ^b   Fogen, Dawson ^b   Kovalchuk, Igor ^b  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

B. rapa; Epigenetics; Small RNAs; Transcriptome; Transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA RAPA;

EID: 84922291696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00005     Document Type: Article

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