Regulation of flowering time: all roads lead to Rome

A Srikanth, M Schmid - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2011 - Springer
Plants undergo a major physiological change as they transition from vegetative growth to
reproductive development. This transition is a result of responses to various endogenous …

Histone methylation in higher plants

C Liu, F Lu, X Cui, X Cao - Annual review of plant biology, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Histone methylation plays a fundamental role in regulating diverse developmental
processes and is also involved in silencing repetitive sequences in order to maintain …

Large-scale whole-genome resequencing unravels the domestication history of Cannabis sativa

G Ren, X Zhang, Y Li, K Ridout… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Cannabis sativa has long been an important source of fiber extracted from hemp and both
medicinal and recreational drugs based on cannabinoid compounds. Here, we investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Noncoding transcription by alternative RNA polymerases dynamically regulates an auxin-driven chromatin loop

F Ariel, T Jegu, D Latrasse, N Romero-Barrios, A Christ… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
The eukaryotic epigenome is shaped by the genome topology in three-dimensional space.
Dynamic reversible variations in this epigenome structure directly influence the …

Control of CpNpG DNA methylation by the KRYPTONITE histone H3 methyltransferase

JP Jackson, AM Lindroth, X Cao, SE Jacobsen - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Gene silencing in eukaryotes is associated with the formation of heterochromatin, a complex
of proteins and DNA that block transcription. Heterochromatin is characterized by the …

Genetic and molecular basis of floral induction in Arabidopsis thaliana

A Kinoshita, R Richter - Journal of experimental botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Many plants synchronize their life cycles in response to changing seasons and initiate
flowering under favourable environmental conditions to ensure reproductive success. To …

Multiple pathways in the decision to flower: enabling, promoting, and resetting

PK Boss, RM Bastow, JS Mylne, C Dean - The Plant Cell, 2004 - academic.oup.com
At a certain point in their life cycle, annual plants undergo a major developmental transition
and switch from vegetative to reproductive development. This process is rarely reversible …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic codes for heterochromatin formation and silencing: rounding up the usual suspects

EJ Richards, SCR Elgin - Cell, 2002 - cell.com
Recent results from diverse organisms point to a self-reinforcing network of interactions
among the three best-characterized covalent modifications that mark heterochromatin …

Arabidopsis REF6 is a histone H3 lysine 27 demethylase

F Lu, X Cui, S Zhang, T Jenuwein, X Cao - Nature genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Polycomb group (PcG)-mediated histone H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) has a key
role in gene repression and developmental regulation,,,. There is evidence that H3K27me3 …

CONSTANS acts in the phloem to regulate a systemic signal that induces photoperiodic flowering of Arabidopsis

H An, C Roussot, P Suárez-López, L Corbesier… - 2004 - journals.biologists.com
Flower development at the shoot apex is initiated in response to environmental cues. Day
length is one of the most important of these and is perceived in the leaves. A systemic signal …