cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution

AP Marand, AL Eveland, K Kaufmann… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
cis-Regulatory elements encode the genomic blueprints that ensure the proper
spatiotemporal patterning of gene expression necessary for appropriate development and …

Cis-regulatory sequences in plants: their importance, discovery, and future challenges

RJ Schmitz, E Grotewold, M Stam - The plant cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of cis-regulatory DNA sequences and how they
function to coordinate responses to developmental and environmental cues is of paramount …

Genome-edited powdery mildew resistance in wheat without growth penalties

S Li, D Lin, Y Zhang, M Deng, Y Chen, B Lv, B Li, Y Lei… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Disruption of susceptibility (S) genes in crops is an attractive breeding strategy for conferring
disease resistance,. However, S genes are implicated in many essential biological functions …

Epigenome plasticity in plants

JPB Lloyd, R Lister - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Plant intra-individual and inter-individual variation can be determined by the epigenome, a
set of covalent modifications of DNA and chromatin that can alter genome structure and …

A cis-regulatory atlas in maize at single-cell resolution

AP Marand, Z Chen, A Gallavotti, RJ Schmitz - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary cis-regulatory elements (CREs) encode the genomic blueprints of spatiotemporal
gene expression programs enabling highly specialized cell functions. Using single-cell …

Glucose-driven TOR–FIE–PRC2 signalling controls plant development

R Ye, M Wang, H Du, S Chhajed, J Koh, K Liu, J Shin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Nutrients and energy have emerged as central modulators of developmental programmes in
plants and animals,–. The evolutionarily conserved target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase is a …

Epigenetic silencing of callose synthase by VIL1 promotes bud-growth transition in lily bulbs

W Pan, J Li, Y Du, Y Zhao, Y Xin, S Wang, C Liu, Z Lin… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
In plants, restoring intercellular communication is required for cell activity in buds during the
growth transition from slow to fast growth after dormancy release. However, the epigenetic …

Control of histone demethylation by nuclear-localized α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase

F Huang, X Luo, Y Ou, Z Gao, Q Tang, Z Chu, X Zhu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Methylations on nucleosomal histones play fundamental roles in regulating eukaryotic
transcription. Jumonji C domain–containing histone demethylases (JMJs) dynamically …

Genomic imprinting in plants—revisiting existing models

RA Batista, C Köhler - Genes & development, 2020 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon leading to parentally biased gene
expression. Throughout the years, extensive efforts have been made to characterize the …

[HTML][HTML] The Polycomb repressive complex 2 deposits H3K27me3 and represses transposable elements in a broad range of eukaryotes

T Hisanaga, F Romani, S Wu, T Kowar, Y Wu… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The mobility of transposable elements (TEs) contributes to evolution of genomes. Their
uncontrolled activity causes genomic instability; therefore, expression of TEs is silenced by …