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Epigenetic inheritance in rice plants.
Annals of botany - 1 Aug 2007
Akimoto Keiko, Katakami Hatsue, Kim Hyun-Jung, Ogawa Emiko, Sano Cecile M, Wada Yuko, Sano Hiroshi
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Epigenetics is defined as mechanisms that regulate gene expression without base sequence alteration. One molecular basis is considered to be DNA cytosine methylation, which reversibly modifies DNA or chromatin structures. Although its correlation with epigenetic inheritance over generations has been circumstantially shown, evidence at the gene level has been limited. The present study aims to...
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