Genetic dissection of the Arabidopsis spaceflight transcriptome: Are some responses dispensable for the physiological adaptation of plants to spaceflight?

AL Paul, NJ Sng, AK Zupanska, A Krishnamurthy… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Experimentation on the International Space Station has reached the stage where repeated
and nuanced transcriptome studies are beginning to illuminate the structural and metabolic …

Root Skewing-Associated Genes Impact the Spaceflight Response of Arabidopsis thaliana

B Califar, NJ Sng, A Zupanska, AL Paul… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The observation that plant roots skew in microgravity recently refuted the long-held
conviction that skewing was a gravity-dependent phenomenon. Further, spaceflight root …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Spaceflight impacts xyloglucan oligosaccharide abundance in Arabidopsis thaliana root cell walls

X Diao, N Haveman, B Califar, X Dong… - Life Sciences in Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the course of more than a decade, space biology investigations have consistently
indicated that cell wall remodeling occurs in a variety of spaceflight-grown plants. Here, we …

A member of the CONSTANS-Like protein family is a putative regulator of reactive oxygen species homeostasis and spaceflight physiological adaptation

NJ Sng, B Kolaczkowski, RJ Ferl, AL Paul - AoB Plants, 2019 - academic.oup.com
A feature of the physiological adaptation to spaceflight in Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis)
is the induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-associated gene expression. The patterns …

Enabling the Spaceflight Methylome: DNA isolated from plant tissues preserved in RNAlater is suitable for Bisulfite PCR assay of genome methylation

CE LeFrois, M Zhou, DM Amador, N Sng… - … and Space Research, 2016 - sciendo.com
Spaceflight has a unique set of abiotic conditions to which plants respond by orchestrating
genome-wide alterations to their transcriptome. The methods for preserving plants for RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic characterization of an Arabidopsis T-DNA insertion line SALK_063500

NJ Sng, AL Paul, RJ Ferl - Data in Brief, 2018 - Elsevier
In this article we report the identification of a homozygous lethal T-DNA (transfer DNA) line
within the coding region of the At1G05290 gene in the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana …

Skewed Perceptions: Altering the Spaceflight and Terrestrial Stress Responses of Arabidopsis thaliana

B Califar - 2021 - search.proquest.com
The responses of plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana, have been studied in myriad
spaceflight experiments, and spaceflight signatures have been identified through–omics …