Main conclusion Environmental-friendly techniques based on plant stress memory, cross-
stress tolerance, and seed priming help sustainable agriculture by mitigating negative …

Since the discovery two decades ago that transgenes are efficiently integrated into the
genome of Physcomitrella patens by homologous recombination, this moss has been a …

The draft genome of the moss model, Physcomitrella patens, comprised approximately 2000
unordered scaffolds. In order to enable analyses of genome structure and evolution we …

Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …

Plants develop tolerance to drought by activating genes with altered levels of epigenetic
modifications. Specific transcription factors are involved in this activation, but the molecular …

The mobility of transposable elements (TEs) contributes to evolution of genomes. Their
uncontrolled activity causes genomic instability; therefore, expression of TEs is silenced by …

Rapid advances in DNA synthesis techniques have enabled the assembly and engineering
of viral and microbial genomes, presenting new opportunities for synthetic genomics in …

Highlights•Stress response in plants involves chromatin re-organization.•This includes
changes in nuclear structure, histone variants, chaperones, and modifications.•Chromatin …

Plant ontogeny relies on the correct timing and sequence of transitions between individual
developmental phases. These are specified by gene expression patterns that are …

Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule with multiple regulatory functions in plant
physiology and stress response. In addition to direct effects on transcriptional machinery, NO …