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Plant genes: the genetics of epigenetics
J Paszkowski1, O Mittelsten Scheid
1Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland. jurek@fmi.ch; ortrun@fmi.ch
Current Biology : CB
|March 25, 1998
Abstract:
The formation of silent epialleles is accompanied by local hypermethylation of the DNA template, and genetically altered, methylation-deficient Arabidopsis mutants generate an increased number of epimutations. But what came first--methylation or epigenetic change?