Germline replications and somatic mutation accumulation are independent of vegetative life span in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 12226-12231

  Watson, J Matthew ^a   Platzer, Alexander ^a   Kazda, Anita ^a   Akimcheva, Svetlana ^a   Valuchova, Sona ^b   Nizhynska, Viktoria ^a   Nordborg, Magnus ^a   Riha, Karel ^a,b  

^a GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT BIOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Germline; Mismatch repair; Mutation rate; Shoot apical meristem; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA REPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMLINE MUTATION; LIFESPAN; MERISTEM; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTATION ACCUMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TELOMERE LENGTH; TELOMERE SHORTENING; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; VEGETATIVE STAGE; DIPLOIDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PLANT CELL; PLANT GENOME; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; SHOOT;

ARABIDOPSIS; DIPLOIDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GERM CELLS; MERISTEM; MUTATION; MUTATION ACCUMULATION; PLANT CELLS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84992323009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1609686113     Document Type: Article

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