Anthocyanins distribution, transcriptional regulation, epigenetic and post-translational modification in fruits

L Sun, J Huo, J Liu, J Yu, J Zhou, C Sun, Y Wang… - Food chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Anthocyanins have indispensable functions in plant resistance, human health, and fruit
coloring, which arouse people's favorite. It has been reported that anthocyanins are widely …

Mechanisms of plant epigenetic regulation in response to plant stress: Recent discoveries and implications

MI Abdulraheem, Y Xiong, AY Moshood… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Plant stress is a significant challenge that affects the development, growth, and productivity
of plants and causes an adverse environmental condition that disrupts normal physiological …

Crosstalk between RNA m6A modification and epigenetic factors for gene regulation in plants

J Hu, T Xu, H Kang - Plant Communications, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A) is the most abundant modification observed in
eukaryotic mRNAs. Following advancements in transcriptome-wide m 6 A mapping and …

Metabolic pathways engineering for drought or/and heat tolerance in cereals

S Liu, T Zenda, Z Tian, Z Huang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Drought (D) and heat (H) are the two major abiotic stresses hindering cereal crop growth
and productivity, either singly or in combination (D/+ H), by imposing various negative …

Natural polymorphisms in ZMET2 encoding a DNA methyltransferase modulate the number of husk layers in maize

Z Wang, A Xia, Q Wang, Z Cui, M Lu, Y Ye… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation affects agronomic traits and the environmental adaptability of crops, but the
natural polymorphisms in DNA methylation–related genes and their contributions to …

Novel SNP markers and other stress-related genomic regions associated with nitrogen use efficiency in cassava

JO Mbe, DK Dzidzienyo, SP Abah, DN Njoku… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cassava productivity is constrained by low soil nitrogen, which is predominant in most
cassava-growing regions in the tropics and subtropical agroecology. Improving the low …

DNA methylation levels of TaP5CS and TaBADH are associated with enhanced tolerance to PEG-induced drought stress triggered by drought priming in wheat

Q Li, X Wang, Z Sun, Y Wu, MM Malkodslo, J Ge… - Plant Physiology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drought priming is a promising strategy to enhance tolerance to recurred drought in wheat.
However, the underlying mechanisms of priming-induced tolerance are far from clear. Here …

Active DNA demethylation in plants: 20 years of discovery and beyond

H Zhang, Z Gong, JK Zhu - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Maintaining proper DNA methylation levels in the genome requires active demethylation of
DNA. However, removing the methyl group from a modified cytosine is chemically difficult …

The roles of histone methylation in the regulation of abiotic stress responses in plants

L Shi, X Cui, Y Shen - Plant stress, 2023 - Elsevier
Abiotic stress greatly threaten plants' growth and ultimately impact crop productivity. Plants
have evolved sophisticated regulatory mechanisms to cope with stressful conditions …

DNA methylation mediates overgrazing-induced clonal transgenerational plasticity

J Yin, W Ren, EL Fry, S Sun, H Han, F Guo - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overgrazing generally induces dwarfism in grassland plants, and these phenotypic traits
could be transmitted to clonal offspring even when overgrazing is excluded. However, the …