Setting the stage for the next generation: Epigenetic reprogramming during sexual plant reproduction

Nuclear Functions in Plant Transcription, Signaling and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 93-118

  Boavida, Leonor C ^a   Hernandez Coronado, Marcela ^a   Becker, JÖrg D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Gametogenesis; Germline; Methylation; Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance; Transposons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944557190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2386-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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