Recent Advances of Epigenetics in Crop Biotechnology

• Main Author: Christopher Cullis (auth)
• Other Authors: Raul Alvarez-Venegas (auth), Clelia De-la-Pena (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Biotechnology; DNA Methylation; small non-coding RNAs; crop; epigenetics; Histone posttranslational modifications
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Epigenetics is a new field that explains gene expression at the chromatin structure and organization level. Three principal epigenetic mechanisms are known and hundreds of combinations among them can develop different phenotypic characteristics. DNA methylation, histone modifications and small RNAs...