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Epigenetic regulation of the rice retrotransposon Tos17.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Oct 2006
Cheng Chaoyang, Daigen Masaaki, Hirochika Hirohiko
Abstract excerpt
Transposable elements are major components of plant genomes. Their activity seems to be epigenetically regulated by gene silencing systems. Here we report epigenetic variation in the retrotransposon Tos17 activity in rice varieties. Of the two copies of Tos17 present in chromosome 7 (Tos17 (chr.7...
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