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Mechanism of PHERES1 imprinting in Arabidopsis.
Journal of cell science - 15 Mar 2008
Makarevich Grigory, Villar Corina B R, Erilova Aleksandra, Köhler Claudia
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting is a phenomenon where only one of the two alleles of a gene is expressed - either the maternally or the paternally inherited allele. Imprinting of the plant gene PHERES1 requires the function of the FERTILIZATION INDEPENDENT SEED (FIS) Polycomb group (PcG) complex for repression of the maternal PHERES1 allele. In this study we investigated the mechanism of PHERES1 imprinting and found that PcG...
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