Dynamic DNA methylation: In the right place at the right time

C Luo, P Hajkova, JR Ecker - Science, 2018 - science.org
The classical model of cytosine DNA methylation (the presence of 5-methylcytosine, 5mC)
regulation depicts this covalent modification as a stable repressive regulator of promoter …

The Arabidopsis bZIP transcription factor family—an update

W Dröge-Laser, BL Snoek, B Snel, C Weiste - Current opinion in plant …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•bZIPs are evolutionarily conserved eukaryotic transcription factors.•The
Arabidopsis bZIP family consists of 78 members classified into 13 groups.•bZIPs perform a …

JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework

A Khan, O Fornes, A Stigliani, M Gheorghe… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract JASPAR (http://jaspar. genereg. net) is an open-access database of curated, non-
redundant transcription factor (TF)-binding profiles stored as position frequency matrices …

Profiling of accessible chromatin regions across multiple plant species and cell types reveals common gene regulatory principles and new control modules

KA Maher, M Bajic, K Kajala, M Reynoso… - The Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The transcriptional regulatory structure of plant genomes remains poorly defined relative to
animals. It is unclear how many cis-regulatory elements exist, where these elements lie …

A NAC transcription factor, NOR-like1, is a new positive regulator of tomato fruit ripening

Y Gao, W Wei, X Zhao, X Tan, Z Fan… - Horticulture …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ripening of the model fruit tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is controlled by a transcription
factor network including NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) domain proteins such as No …

Downregulation of RdDM during strawberry fruit ripening

J Cheng, Q Niu, B Zhang, K Chen, R Yang, JK Zhu… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Recently, DNA methylation was proposed to regulate fleshy fruit ripening.
Fleshy fruits can be distinguished by their ripening process as climacteric fruits, such as …

Auxin response factors: output control in auxin biology

M Roosjen, S Paque, D Weijers - Journal of experimental botany, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The phytohormone auxin is involved in almost all developmental processes in land plants.
Most, if not all, of these processes are mediated by changes in gene expression. Auxin acts …

A B-ARR-mediated cytokinin transcriptional network directs hormone cross-regulation and shoot development

M Xie, H Chen, L Huang, RC O'Neil… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cytokinin fulfills its diverse roles in planta through a series of transcriptional responses. We
identify the in vivo DNA binding site profiles for three genetically redundant type-B …

The DNA binding landscape of the maize AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR family

M Galli, A Khakhar, Z Lu, Z Chen, S Sen, T Joshi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORS (ARFs) are plant-specific transcription factors (TFs)
that couple perception of the hormone auxin to gene expression programs essential to all …

Repression of nitrogen starvation responses by members of the Arabidopsis GARP-type transcription factor NIGT1/HRS1 subfamily

T Kiba, J Inaba, T Kudo, N Ueda, M Konishi… - The Plant …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen (N) is often a limiting nutrient whose availability determines plant growth and
productivity. Because its availability is often low and/or not uniform over time and space in …