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Epigenetics and its implications for plant biology. 1. The epigenetic network in plants.
Annals of botany - 1 Dec 2005
Grant-Downton R T, Dickinson H G
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BACKGROUND: Epigenetics has rapidly evolved in the past decade to form an exciting new branch of biology. In modern terms, 'epigenetics' studies molecular pathways regulating how the genes are packaged in the chromosome and expressed, with effects that are heritable between cell divisions and even across generations. CONTEXT: Epigenetic mechanisms often conflict with Mendelian models of genetics, and many...
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