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Arabidopsis epigenetics: when RNA meets chromatin.
Current opinion in plant biology - 1 Apr 2005
Gendrel Anne-Valérie, Colot Vincent
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Recent work in plants and other eukaryotes has uncovered a major role for RNA interference in silent chromatin formation. The heritability of the silent state through multiple cell division cycles and, in some instances, through meiosis is assured by epigenetic marks. In plants, transposable elements and transgenes provide striking examples of the stable inheritance of repressed states, and are characterized by...
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