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Imprinted expression of genes and small RNA is associated with localized hypomethylation of the maternal genome in rice endosperm.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 May 2013
Rodrigues Jessica A, Ruan Randy, Nishimura Toshiro, Sharma Manoj K, Sharma Rita, Ronald Pamela C, Fischer Robert L, Zilberman Daniel
Abstract excerpt
Arabidopsis thaliana endosperm, a transient tissue that nourishes the embryo, exhibits extensive localized DNA demethylation on maternally inherited chromosomes. Demethylation mediates parent-of-origin-specific (imprinted) gene expression but is apparently unnecessary for the extensive accumulation of maternally biased small RNA (sRNA) molecules detected in seeds. Endosperm DNA in the distantly related monocots...
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