The molecular basis of heat stress responses in plants

Y Kan, XR Mu, J Gao, HX Lin, Y Lin - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Global warming impacts crop production and threatens food security. Elevated temperatures
are sensed by different cell components. Temperature increases are classified as either mild …

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 …

DNA methylation-free Arabidopsis reveals crucial roles of DNA methylation in regulating gene expression and development

L He, H Huang, M Bradai, C Zhao, Y You, J Ma… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A contribution of DNA methylation to defense against invading nucleic acids and
maintenance of genome integrity is uncontested; however, our understanding of the extent …

Plant small RNAs: their biogenesis, regulatory roles, and functions

J Zhan, BC Meyers - Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plant cells accumulate small RNA molecules that regulate plant development, genome
stability, and environmental responses. These small RNAs fall into three major classes …

Plant responses to heat stress: physiology, transcription, noncoding RNAs, and epigenetics

J Zhao, Z Lu, L Wang, B Jin - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Global warming has increased the frequency of extreme high temperature events. High
temperature is a major abiotic stress that limits the growth and production of plants …

Understanding plant stress memory response for abiotic stress resilience: Molecular insights and prospects

M Sharma, P Kumar, V Verma, R Sharma… - Plant Physiology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As sessile species and without the possibility of escape, plants constantly face numerous
environmental stresses. To adapt in the external environmental cues, plants adjust …

Dynamics and function of DNA methylation in plants

H Zhang, Z Lang, JK Zhu - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic modification that is important for gene regulation
and genome stability. Aberrant patterns of DNA methylation can lead to plant developmental …

RNA-directed DNA methylation

RM Erdmann, CL Picard - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is a biological process in which non-coding RNA
molecules direct the addition of DNA methylation to specific DNA sequences. The RdDM …

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 …

Epigenetic regulation in plant abiotic stress responses

YN Chang, C Zhu, J Jiang, H Zhang… - Journal of integrative …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In eukaryotic cells, gene expression is greatly influenced by the dynamic chromatin
environment. Epigenetic mechanisms, including covalent modifications to DNA and histone …