[HTML][HTML] Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome

M Borg, D Jiang, F Berger - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•The combination of histone variants greatly expands nucleosome diversity.•H2A
and H2B variants occupy distinct chromatin landscapes.•Histone H3. 1 controls epigenetic …

Silencing of active transposable elements in plants

D Fultz, SG Choudury, RK Slotkin - Current opinion in plant biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Multiple mechanisms exist to repress the mutagenic potential of transposable
element (TE) activity.•Transcriptionally active TEs trigger normally latent pathways including …

[HTML][HTML] Histone H2B. 8 compacts flowering plant sperm through chromatin phase separation

T Buttress, S He, L Wang, S Zhou, G Saalbach… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Sperm chromatin is typically transformed by protamines into a compact and transcriptionally
inactive state,. Sperm cells of flowering plants lack protamines, yet they have small …

Active DNA demethylation in plant companion cells reinforces transposon methylation in gametes

CA Ibarra, X Feng, VK Schoft, TF Hsieh, R Uzawa… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The Arabidopsis thaliana central cell, the companion cell of the egg, undergoes DNA
demethylation before fertilization, but the targeting preferences, mechanism, and biological …

The histone variant H2A. W defines heterochromatin and promotes chromatin condensation in Arabidopsis

R Yelagandula, H Stroud, S Holec, K Zhou, S Feng… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Histone variants play crucial roles in gene expression, genome integrity, and chromosome
segregation. We report that the four H2A variants in Arabidopsis define different genomic …

Apomixis in plant reproduction: a novel perspective on an old dilemma

G Barcaccia, E Albertini - Plant reproduction, 2013 - Springer
Seed is one of the key factors of crop productivity. Therefore, a comprehension of the
mechanisms underlying seed formation in cultivated plants is crucial for the quantitative and …

Genomic Analysis of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in Arabidopsis thaliana Seeds

M Gehring, V Missirian, S Henikoff - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Differential expression of maternally and paternally inherited alleles of a gene is referred to
as gene imprinting, a form of epigenetic gene regulation common to flowering plants and …

Germline specification and function in plants

F Berger, D Twell - Annual review of plant biology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The flowering plant germline is produced during the haploid gametophytic stage. Defining
the germline is complicated by the extreme reduction of the male and female gametophytes …

[HTML][HTML] Maternal epigenetic pathways control parental contributions to Arabidopsis early embryogenesis

D Autran, C Baroux, MT Raissig, T Lenormand, M Wittig… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
Defining the contributions and interactions of paternal and maternal genomes during
embryo development is critical to understand the fundamental processes involved in hybrid …

Selected aspects of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and resetting in plants

J Paszkowski, U Grossniklaus - Current opinion in plant biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (TEI), which is the inheritance of expression states
and thus traits that are not determined by the DNA sequence, is often postulated but the …