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Genetic analyses of DNA methyltransferases in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2006
Zhang X, Jacobsen S E
Abstract excerpt
DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic silencing mechanism that functions to suppress the proliferation of transposons and regulate the expression of endogenous genes. In plants, mutations that cause severe loss of DNA methylation result in reactivation of transposons as well as developmental abnormalities. We use the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system to study the establishment and...
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