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Silencing of Gene Expression in the Anthocyanin Regulatory Gene Families

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Cellular Integration of Signalling Pathways in Plant Development

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Abstract

An inference that can be drawn from Mendel’s first law is that contrasting alleles emerge from the heterozygotes without having influenced each other. Thus the pattern of expression of a gene with intact regulatory and coding regions is generally transmitted unchanged to the progeny upon segregation. However, exceptions to this rule have been observed in a number of organisms and include ‘epigenetic’ modifications of gene expression that are heritable and do not involve changes to the nucleotide sequence.

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    Angela Ronchi, Roberto Pilu & Chiara Tonelli

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Padua, Via Colombo 3, I-35121, Padua, Italy

    Fiorella Lo Schiavo

  2. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and Section of Genetics and Development, Cornell University, Tower Road, 14853-1801, Ithaca, NY, USA

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Ronchi, A., Pilu, R., Tonelli, C. (1998). Silencing of Gene Expression in the Anthocyanin Regulatory Gene Families. In: Lo Schiavo, F., Last, R.L., Morelli, G., Raikhel, N.V. (eds) Cellular Integration of Signalling Pathways in Plant Development. NATO ASI Series, vol 104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72117-5_9

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