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Methylation of plant telomeric DNA: what do the results say?

M. I. Vaquero-Sedas and M. A. Vega-Palas: DNA methylation at tobacco telomeric sequences

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This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (P501/11/0289, P501/11/0596), the Czech Ministry of Education (MSM0021622415) and by the project “CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology” (CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0068) from European Regional Development Fund.

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    Eva Majerová, Miloslava Fojtová, Terezie Mandáková & Jiří Fajkus

  2. Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic v.v.i., Královopolská 135, 61265, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jiří Fajkus

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Majerová, E., Fojtová, M., Mandáková, T. et al. Methylation of plant telomeric DNA: what do the results say?. Plant Mol Biol 77, 533–536 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-011-9834-5

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