Epigenomics in an extraterrestrial environment: organ-specific alteration of DNA methylation and gene expression elicited by spaceflight in Arabidopsis thaliana

M Zhou, NJ Sng, CE LeFrois, AL Paul, RJ Ferl - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Plants adapted to diverse environments on Earth throughout their evolutionary
history, and developed mechanisms to thrive in a variety of terrestrial habitats. When plants …

Epigenomic Regulators Elongator Complex Subunit 2 and Methyltransferase 1 Differentially Condition the Spaceflight Response in Arabidopsis

AL Paul, N Haveman, B Califar, RJ Ferl - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Plants subjected to the novel environment of spaceflight show transcriptomic
changes that resemble aspects of several terrestrial abiotic stress responses. Under …

Preserving plant samples from remote locations for detection of RNA and DNA viruses

I Hamim, JY Suzuki, WB Borth, MJ Melzer… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Viral diseases in plants have a significant impact on agricultural productivity. Effective
detection is needed to facilitate accurate diagnosis and characterization of virus infections …

Single-molecule long-read methylation profiling reveals regional DNA methylation regulated by Elongator Complex Subunit 2 in Arabidopsis roots experiencing …

M Zhou, A Riva, MPL Gauthier, MP Kladde, RJ Ferl… - Biology Direct, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The Advanced Plant Experiment-04-Epigenetic Expression (APEX-04-
EpEx) experiment onboard the International Space Station examined the spaceflight-altered …

Approaches for Surveying Cosmic Radiation Damage in Large Populations of Seeds–Antarctic Balloons and Particle Beams

B Califar, R Tucker, J Cromie, N Sng… - … and Space Research, 2020 - sciendo.com
ABSTRACT The Cosmic Ray Exposure Sequencing Science (CRESS) payload system was
a proof of concept experiment to assess the genomic impact of space radiation on seeds …