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Genomic imprinting, methylation and parent-of-origin effects in reciprocal hybrid endosperm of castor bean.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jun 2014
Xu Wei, Dai Mengyuan, Li Fei, Liu Aizhong
Abstract excerpt
Genomic imprinting often results in parent-of-origin specific differential expression of maternally and paternally inherited alleles. In plants, the triploid endosperm is where gene imprinting occurs most often, but aside from studies on Arabidopsis, little is known about gene imprinting in dicotyledons. In this study, we inspected genomic imprinting in castor bean (Ricinus communis) endosperm, which persists...
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