Epigenetics and heterosis in crop plants

Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance: Fundamentals and Applications: Transcriptional Regulation and Chromatin Remodelling in Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 13-31

  Ryder, Peter ^a   McKeown, Peter C ^a   Fort, Antoine ^a   Spillane, Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Heterosis; Hybrid vigor; Parent of origin; sRNA; Transchromosomal methylation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930162405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07971-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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