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Natural epialleles of Arabidopsis SUPERMAN display superwoman phenotypes.
Communications biology - 15 Dec 2020
Bondada Ramesh, Somasundaram Saravanakumar, Marimuthu Mohan Premanand, Badarudeen Mohammed Afsal, Puthiyaveedu Vaishak Kanjirakol, Maruthachalam Ravi
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Epimutations are heritable changes in gene function due to loss or gain of DNA cytosine methylation or chromatin modifications without changes in the DNA sequence. Only a few natural epimutations displaying discernible phenotypes are documented in plants. Here, we report natural epimutations in the cadastral gene, SUPERMAN(SUP), showing striking phenotypes despite normal transcription, discovered in a natural...
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