Chromatin changes in response to drought, salinity, heat, and cold stresses in plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Kim, Jong Myong ^a   Sasaki, Taku ^a,b   Ueda, Minoru ^a,b   Sako, Kaori ^a   Seki, Motoaki ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress response; DNA methylation; Epigenetic regulation; Histone modification; Stress memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925095925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00114     Document Type: Review

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