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Small RNAs and heritable epigenetic variation in plants.
Trends in cell biology - 1 Feb 2014
Bond Donna M, Baulcombe David C
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies suggest that inheritance of phenotypes in plants is more likely to involve epigenetics than in mammals. There are two reasons for this difference. First, there is a RNA-based system in plants involving small (s)RNAs that influences de novo establishment and maintenance of DNA methylation at many sites in plant genomes. These regions of methylated DNA are epigenetic marks with the potential to...
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