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Overproduction of stomatal lineage cells in Arabidopsis mutants defective in active DNA demethylation.
Nature communications - 5 Jun 2014
Yamamuro Chizuko, Miki Daisuke, Zheng Zhimin, Ma Jun, Wang Jing, Yang Zhenbiao, Dong Juan, Zhu Jian-Kang
Abstract excerpt
DNA methylation is a reversible epigenetic mark regulating genome stability and function in many eukaryotes. In Arabidopsis, active DNA demethylation depends on the function of the ROS1 subfamily of genes that encode 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases/lyases. ROS1-mediated DNA demethylation plays a critical role in the regulation of transgenes, transposable elements and some endogenous genes; however, there have...
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