Response mechanisms of plants under saline-alkali stress

S Fang, X Hou, X Liang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As two coexisting abiotic stresses, salt stress and alkali stress have severely restricted the
development of global agriculture. Clarifying the plant resistance mechanism and …

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 …

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 …

Detection of DNA base modifications by deep recurrent neural network on Oxford Nanopore sequencing data

Q Liu, L Fang, G Yu, D Wang, CL Xiao… - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
DNA base modifications, such as C5-methylcytosine (5mC) and N6-methyldeoxyadenosine
(6mA), are important types of epigenetic regulations. Short-read bisulfite sequencing and …

Critical roles of DNA demethylation in the activation of ripening-induced genes and inhibition of ripening-repressed genes in tomato fruit

Z Lang, Y Wang, K Tang, D Tang… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic mark important for genome integrity,
development, and environmental responses in plants and mammals. Active DNA …

Vitamin C induces Tet-dependent DNA demethylation and a blastocyst-like state in ES cells

K Blaschke, KT Ebata, MM Karimi, JA Zepeda-Martínez… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a heritable epigenetic modification involved in gene silencing,
imprinting, and the suppression of retrotransposons. Global DNA demethylation occurs in …

Tet-mediated formation of 5-carboxylcytosine and its excision by TDG in mammalian DNA

YF He, BZ Li, Z Li, P Liu, Y Wang, Q Tang, J Ding, Y Jia… - Science, 2011 - science.org
The prevalent DNA modification in higher organisms is the methylation of cytosine to 5-
methylcytosine (5mC), which is partially converted to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) by …

The plant DNA damage response: signaling pathways leading to growth inhibition and putative role in response to stress conditions

MU Nisa, Y Huang, M Benhamed… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Maintenance of genome integrity is a key issue for all living organisms. Cells are constantly
exposed to DNA damage due to replication or transcription, cellular metabolic activities …

Epigenetic regulation in plants

CS Pikaard, OM Scheid - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The study of epigenetics in plants has a long and rich history, from initial descriptions of non-
Mendelian gene behaviors to seminal discoveries of chromatin-modifying proteins and …

New insights into 5hmC DNA modification: generation, distribution and function

DQ Shi, I Ali, J Tang, WC Yang - Frontiers in genetics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Dynamic DNA modifications, such as methylation/demethylation on cytosine, are major
epigenetic mechanisms to modulate gene expression in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. In …