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Maize sex determination and abaxial leaf fates are canalized by a factor that maintains repressed epigenetic states.
Developmental biology - 15 Aug 2007
Parkinson Susan E, Gross Stephen M, Hollick Jay B
Abstract excerpt
In maize (Zea mays ssp. mays), the meiotically heritable maintenance of specific transcriptionally repressed epigenetic states is facilitated by a putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase encoded by mediator of paramutation1 (mop1) and an unknown factor encoded by the required to maintain repression6 (rmr6) locus. These so-called "paramutant" states occur at certain alleles of loci encoding regulators of anthocyanin...
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