Plant enhancers: a call for discovery

B Weber, J Zicola, R Oka, M Stam - Trends in plant science, 2016 - cell.com
Higher eukaryotes typically contain many different cell types, displaying different cellular
functions that are influenced by biotic and abiotic cues. The different functions are …

Open chromatin reveals the functional maize genome

E Rodgers-Melnick, DL Vera… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Cellular processes mediated through nuclear DNA must contend with chromatin. Chromatin
structural assays can efficiently integrate information across diverse regulatory elements …

EGRINs (Environmental Gene Regulatory Influence Networks) in rice that function in the response to water deficit, high temperature, and agricultural environments

O Wilkins, C Hafemeister, A Plessis… - The Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Environmental gene regulatory influence networks (EGRINs) coordinate the timing and rate
of gene expression in response to environmental signals. EGRINs encompass many layers …

Small genetic circuits and MicroRNAs: big players in polymerase II transcriptional control in plants

M Megraw, JS Cumbie, MG Ivanchenko… - The Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) regulatory cascades involving transcription factors (TFs)
and their targets orchestrate the genetic circuitry of every eukaryotic organism. In order to …

PlantDHS: a database for DNase I hypersensitive sites in plants

T Zhang, AP Marand, J Jiang - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Gene expression is regulated by orchestrated binding of regulatory proteins to promoters
and other cis-regulatory DNA elements (CREs). Several plant databases have been …

Identification of regulatory DNA elements using genome-wide mapping of DNase I hypersensitive sites during tomato fruit development

Z Qiu, R Li, S Zhang, K Wang, M Xu, J Li, Y Du, H Yu… - Molecular plant, 2016 - cell.com
Abstract Development and ripening of tomato fruit are precisely controlled by transcriptional
regulation, which depends on the orchestrated accessibility of regulatory proteins to …

Gene expression and chromatin modifications associated with maize centromeres

H Zhao, X Zhu, K Wang, JI Gent… - G3: Genes …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Centromeres are defined by the presence of CENH3, a variant of histone H3. Centromeres
in most plant species contain exclusively highly repetitive DNA sequences, which has …

Functional characterization of open chromatin in bidirectional promoters of rice

Y Fang, X Wang, L Wang, X Pan, J Xiao, X Wang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Bidirectional gene pairs tend to be highly coregulated and function in similar biological
processes in eukaryotic genomes. Structural features and functional consequences of …

Histone modifications facilitate the coexpression of bidirectional promoters in rice

Y Fang, L Wang, X Wang, Q You, X Pan, J Xiao… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background Bidirectional gene pairs are highly abundant and mostly co-regulated in
eukaryotic genomes. The structural features of bidirectional promoters (BDPs) have been …

[PDF][PDF] 水稻表观基因组研究进展

周超, 赵毓, 周少立, 周道绣 - 生命科学, 2016 - lifescience.sinh.ac.cn
水稻是世界上主要的粮食作物之一, 也是功能基因组研究的模式植物. 近年来水稻表观基因组
研究取得了重大进展, 表观基因组是指在特定的内在和外界环境条件下, 细胞内全基因组染色质 …