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Unlocking the lemon's flavor secret: epigenetics of citric acid
Lemons owe their signature tang to citric acid, yet the molecular mechanisms governing its accumulation have long remained a ...
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Lemon Flavor Unlocked: Citric Acid Epigenetics Revealed
Lemons owe their signature tang to citric acid, yet the molecular mechanisms governing its accumulation have long remained a ...
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Infographic: Plant Methylation Basics
There are three different types of DNA methylation in plants: CG, CHH (where H is any base except G), and CHG. In Arabidopsis, CG methylation is found on some genes, but primarily on repeat sequences ...
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Biologists discover how plants evolved multiple ways to override genetic instructions
As they expected, CMT2 was able to perform both CHG and CHH methylation. This suggests that CMT2 was originally a duplicate of CMT3, a backup system to help lighten the load as DNA became more ...