Genome-wide screen of genes imprinted in sorghum endosperm, and the roles of allelic differential cytosine methylation

Plant Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 424-436

  Zhang, Meishan ^a,b   Li, Ning ^b   He, Wenan ^a   Zhang, Huakun ^b   Yang, Wei ^a   Liu, Bao ^b  

^a JILIN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; endosperm specific expression; epigenetics; imprinted genes; RNA sequencing; sorghum; Sorghum bicolor

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATION; DNA SEQUENCES; GENE ENCODING; GENES; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); METHYLATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

DNA METHYLATION; ENDOSPERM-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION; EPIGENETICS; RNA SEQUENCING; SORGHUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR;

GENE EXPRESSION;

CYTOSINE;

ALLELE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOSPERM; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SORGHUM;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOSPERM; EPIGENOMICS; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SORGHUM;

EID: 84956720580     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13116     Document Type: Article

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