Plants frequently have to weather both biotic and abiotic stressors, and have evolved
sophisticated adaptation and defense mechanisms. In recent years, chromatin modifications …

Heat stress (HS) is becoming an increasingly significant problem for food security as global
warming progresses. Recent studies have elucidated the complex transcriptional regulatory …

Genetic mapping studies on crops suggest that agronomic traits can be controlled by gene–
distal intergenic loci. Despite the biological importance and the potential agronomic utility of …

This article focuses on the molecular and hormonal mechanisms underlying the control of
fleshy fruit ripening and quality. Recent research on tomato shows that ethylene, acting …

Unlike animals, plants are immobile and could not actively escape the effects of aggressive
environmental factors, such as pathogenic microorganisms, insect pests, parasitic plants …

Tri‐methylation of lysine 4 on histone H3 (H3K4me3) is a near‐universal chromatin
modification at the transcription start site of active genes in eukaryotes from yeast to man …

Cytosine methylation is involved in various biological processes such as silencing of
transposable elements (TEs) and imprinting. Multiple pathways regulate DNA methylation in …

Chromatin regulation is essential to regulate genes and genome activities. In plants, the
alteration of histone modification and DNA methylation are coordinated with changes in the …

Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

Although SWI/SNF chromatin remodelling complexes are known to regulate diverse
biological functions in plants, the classification, compositions and functional mechanisms of …