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 …

Dynamics of DNA methylation and its functions in plant growth and development

S Kumar, T Mohapatra - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Epigenetic modifications in DNA bases and histone proteins play important roles in the
regulation of gene expression and genome stability. Chemical modification of DNA base …

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 …

Establishing, maintaining and modifying DNA methylation patterns in plants and animals

JA Law, SE Jacobsen - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

The role of mitochondria in apoptosis

C Wang, RJ Youle - Annual review of genetics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria play key roles in activating apoptosis in mammalian cells. Bcl-2 family
members regulate the release of proteins from the space between the mitochondrial inner …

[HTML][HTML] Thymine DNA glycosylase is essential for active DNA demethylation by linked deamination-base excision repair

S Cortellino, J Xu, M Sannai, R Moore, E Caretti… - Cell, 2011 - cell.com
DNA methylation is a major epigenetic mechanism for gene silencing. Whereas
methyltransferases mediate cytosine methylation, it is less clear how unmethylated regions …

Active DNA demethylation: many roads lead to Rome

SC Wu, Y Zhang - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
DNA methylation is one of the best-characterized epigenetic modifications and has been
implicated in numerous biological processes, including transposable element silencing …

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 …

Active DNA demethylation in plant companion cells reinforces transposon methylation in gametes

CA Ibarra, X Feng, VK Schoft, TF Hsieh, R Uzawa… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The Arabidopsis thaliana central cell, the companion cell of the egg, undergoes DNA
demethylation before fertilization, but the targeting preferences, mechanism, and biological …