Article
RNA silencing systems and their relevance to allele-specific DNA methylation in plants.
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry - 1 Nov 2007
Shiba Hiroshi, Takayama Seiji
Abstract excerpt
In many organisms, allelic diversity generates phenotypic variations and contributes to many events, such as development, adaptation to changing environment, and genome evolution. Allelic diversity is generally defined by the difference in nucleotide sequences that code for a gene. However, a heritable epigenetic modification, in which the modification is attributable to the degree of methylation of a gene and...
Topics
- Alleles
- DNA Methylation
- DNA, Plant
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Gene Silencing
- Genomic Imprinting
- Heterochromatin
- Plants
- RNA
- RNA Interference