Genome-wide epigenetic regulation of gene transcription in maize seeds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Lu, Xiaoduo ^a,b   Wang, Weixuan ^b,c   Ren, Wen ^d   Chai, Zhenguang ^a   Guo, Wenzhu ^b,c   Chen, Rumei ^b,c   Wang, Lei ^b,c   Zhao, Jun ^b,c   Lang, Zhihong ^b,c   Fan, Yunliu ^b,c   Zhao, Jiuran ^d   Zhang, Chunyi ^b,c  

^a Qilu Normal University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement (NFCRI)   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSPERM; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAIZE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN CODING GENE; PSEUDOGENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEEDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84949009920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139582     Document Type: Article

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