Chromatin dynamics during plant sexual reproduction

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  She, Wenjing ^a   Baroux, Célia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chromatin dynamics; DNA methylation; Epigenetic reprogramming; Histone modification; Histone variants; Nucleosome remodeling; Plant sexual reproduction; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979781055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00354     Document Type: Review

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