Article
Paramutagenicity of a p1 epiallele in maize.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Jan 2013
Goettel Wolfgang, Messing Joachim
Abstract excerpt
Complex silencing mechanisms in plants and other kingdoms target transposons, repeat sequences, invasive viral nucleic acids and transgenes, but also endogenous genes and genes involved in paramutation. Paramutation occurs in a heterozygote when a transcriptionally active allele heritably adopts the epigenetic state of a transcriptionally and/or post-transcriptionally repressed allele. P1-rr and its silenced...
Topics
- Alleles
- CpG Islands
- Crosses, Genetic
- Cytosine
- DNA Methylation
- Epigenesis, Genetic
- Gene Silencing
- Genes, Plant
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Models, Genetic
- Mutagens
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Pigmentation
- Plant Proteins
- Transcription, Genetic
- Zea mays