Variations of Histone Modification Patterns: Contributions of Inter-plant Variability and Technical Factors.

ABSTRACT: Inter-individual variability of conspecific plants is governed by differences in their genetically determined growth and development traits, environmental conditions, and adaptive responses under epigenetic control involving histone post-translational modifications. The apparent variability in histone modifications among plants might be increased by technical variation introduced in sample processing during epigenetic analyses. Thus, to detect true variations in epigenetic histone patterns associated with given factors, the basal variability among samples that is not associated with them must be estimated. To improve knowledge of relative contribution of biological and technical variation, mass spectrometry was used to examine histone modification patterns (acetylation and methylation) amo

SUBMITTER: Brabencova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725443 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature