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The many hues of plant heterochromatin
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Correspondence: Jeffrey L Bennetzen maize@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-392, USA
Genome Biology 2000, 1:reviews107-reviews107.4 doi:10.1186/gb-2000-1-1-reviews107
Published: 9 June 2000Abstract
Recent sequence and cytogenetic analyses of heterochromatin in Arabidopsis, together with other results from Arabidopsis and maize, indicate that plant heterochromatin can have very different origins, compositions and dynamics. Shared features that must determine and/or be a result of its unique biological properties are also revealed.