Multilayered regulation of secondary metabolism in medicinal plants

Y Zhao, G Liu, F Yang, Y Liang, Q Gao, C Xiang… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Medicinal plants represent a huge reservoir of secondary metabolites (SMs), substances
with significant pharmaceutical and industrial potential. However, obtaining secondary …

Variation is important: warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants

D Jiang, F Berger - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The chromatin of flowering plants exhibits a wide range of sequence variants of the core and
linker histones. Recent studies have demonstrated that specific histone variant enrichment …

[HTML][HTML] Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome

M Borg, D Jiang, F Berger - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•The combination of histone variants greatly expands nucleosome diversity.•H2A
and H2B variants occupy distinct chromatin landscapes.•Histone H3. 1 controls epigenetic …

From single-to multi-omics: future research trends in medicinal plants

L Yang, Y Yang, L Huang, X Cui… - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Medicinal plants are the main source of natural metabolites with specialised
pharmacological activities and have been widely examined by plant researchers. Numerous …

Epigenetic responses to temperature and climate

BA McCaw, TJ Stevenson… - … and Comparative Biology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetics represents a widely accepted set of mechanisms by which organisms respond
to the environment by regulating phenotypic plasticity and life history transitions …

Mechanisms of plant epigenetic regulation in response to plant stress: Recent discoveries and implications

MI Abdulraheem, Y Xiong, AY Moshood… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plant stress is a significant challenge that affects the development, growth, and productivity
of plants and causes an adverse environmental condition that disrupts normal physiological …

Deciphering the intricate hierarchical gene regulatory network: Unraveling multi-level regulation and modifications driving secondary cell wall formation

Z Wei, H Wei - Horticulture Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Wood quality is predominantly determined by the amount and the composition of secondary
cell walls (SCWs). Consequently, unraveling the molecular regulatory mechanisms …

Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?

AE Yaschenko, M Fenech, S Mazzoni-Putman… - Current opinion in plant …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gene expression differences between distinct cell types are orchestrated by specific sets of
transcription factors and epigenetic regulators acting upon the genome. In plants, the …

Somatic mutations inferred from RNA-seq data highlight the contribution of replication timing to mutation rate variation in a model plant

PM Staunton, AJ Peters, C Seoighe - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Variation in the rates and characteristics of germline and somatic mutations across the
genome of an organism is informative about DNA damage and repair processes and can …

Unravelling the role of epigenetic modifications in development and reproduction of angiosperms: a critical appraisal

P Kumari, S Khan, IA Wani, R Gupta, S Verma… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Epigenetics are the heritable changes in gene expression patterns which occur without
altering DNA sequence. These changes are reversible and do not change the sequence of …