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Shh! Keeping Genes Quiet

Apr 23, 2007

A recent paper in PLoS Biology looks at the genome-wide trimethylation pattern of histone H3 lysine 27 (H3K27me3) in Arabidopsis, discovering that it is a primary gene silencing mechanism.

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