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 …

Epigenetic gene regulation in plants and its potential applications in crop improvement

H Zhang, JK Zhu - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
DNA methylation, also known as 5-methylcytosine, is an epigenetic modification that has
crucial functions in plant growth, development and adaptation. The cellular DNA methylation …

Alternative splicing and protein diversity: plants versus animals

S Chaudhary, W Khokhar, I Jabre, ASN Reddy… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Plants, unlike animals, exhibit a very high degree of plasticity in their growth and
development and employ diverse strategies to cope with the variations during diurnal cycles …

Phytopathogens reprogram host alternative mRNA splicing

T Hewezi - Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Alternative splicing (AS) is an evolutionarily conserved cellular process in eukaryotes in
which multiple messenger RNA (mRNA) transcripts are produced from a single gene. The …

Sexual-lineage-specific DNA methylation regulates meiosis in Arabidopsis

J Walker, H Gao, J Zhang, B Aldridge, M Vickers… - Nature Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation regulates eukaryotic gene expression and is extensively reprogrammed
during animal development. However, whether developmental methylation reprogramming …

Global profiling of alternative splicing landscape responsive to drought, heat and their combination in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Z Liu, J Qin, X Tian, S Xu, Y Wang, H Li… - Plant biotechnology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plant can acquire tolerance to environmental stresses via transcriptome reprogramming at
transcriptional and alternative splicing (AS) levels. However, how AS coordinates with …

[HTML][HTML] Stress-induced changes in alternative splicing landscape in rice: functional significance of splice isoforms in stress tolerance

SA Ganie, ASN Reddy - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Environmental stresses adversely affect rice production. Understanding
the molecular responses of rice to these stresses will have an enormous impact on the …

Does co-transcriptional regulation of alternative splicing mediate plant stress responses?

I Jabre, ASN Reddy, M Kalyna… - Nucleic Acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Plants display exquisite control over gene expression to elicit appropriate responses under
normal and stress conditions. Alternative splicing (AS) of pre-mRNAs, a process that …

The crosstalk between epigenetic mechanisms and alternative RNA processing regulation

J Zhang, YZ Zhang, J Jiang, CG Duan - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As a co-transcriptional process, RNA processing, including alternative splicing and
alternative polyadenylation, is crucial for the generation of multiple mRNA isoforms. RNA …

The relationship between transgenerational acquired resistance and global DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

JHM Stassen, A López, R Jain, D Pascual-Pardo… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Progeny of heavily diseased plants develop transgenerational acquired resistance (TAR). In
Arabidopsis, TAR can be transmitted over one stress-free generation. Although DNA …