The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  De la Peña, Clelia ^a   Nic Can, Geovanny I ^b   Galaz Ávalos, Rosa M ^a   Avilez Montalvo, Randy ^a   Loyola Vargas, Víctor M ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histone modification; Somaclonal variation; Somatic embryogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940177596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00635     Document Type: Review

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