Unlike animals, plants are immobile and could not actively escape the effects of aggressive
environmental factors, such as pathogenic microorganisms, insect pests, parasitic plants …

Histone methylation plays a fundamental role in regulating diverse developmental
processes and is also involved in silencing repetitive sequences in order to maintain …

Background Post-translational modifications of histones play important roles in maintaining
normal transcription patterns by directly or indirectly affecting the structural properties of the …

In this article, we review environmentally mediated epigenetic regulation in plants using two
case histories. One of these, vernalization, mediates adaptation of plants to different …

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 …

Abstract Nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) is a conserved heterotrimeric transcription factor complex
that binds to the CCAAT motifs within the promoter region of many genes. In plants, a large …

Gene silencing by Polycomb complexes is central to eukaryotic development. Cold-induced
epigenetic repression of FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) in the plant Arabidopsis provides an …

Polycomb-group (PcG) genes encode chromatin proteins involved in stable and heritable
transcriptional silencing. PcG proteins participate in distinct multimeric complexes that …

Interest in transgenerational epigenetic inheritance has intensified with the boosting of
knowledge on epigenetic mechanisms regulating gene expression during development and …

The three-dimensional packing of the genome plays an important role in regulating gene
expression. We have used Hi-C, a genome-wide chromatin conformation capture (3C) …