The role and activity of SWI/SNF chromatin remodelers

T Bieluszewski, S Prakash, T Roulé… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
SWITCH deficient SUCROSE NONFERMENTING (SWI/SNF) class chromatin remodeling
complexes (CRCs) use the energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to facilitate access of …

Epigenetics: a catalyst of plant immunity against pathogens

A Hannan Parker, SW Wilkinson, J Ton - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The plant immune system protects against pests and diseases. The recognition of stress‐
related molecular patterns triggers localised immune responses, which are often followed by …

Molecular innovations in plant TIR-based immunity signaling

D Lapin, O Johanndrees, Z Wu, X Li, JE Parker - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A protein domain (Toll and Interleukin-1 receptor [TIR]-like) with homology to animal TIRs
mediates immune signaling in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Here, we present an overview of …

Histone modification and chromatin remodeling in plant response to pathogens

H Kang, T Fan, J Wu, Y Zhu, WH Shen - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As sessile organisms, plants are constantly exposed to changing environments frequently
under diverse stresses. Invasion by pathogens, including virus, bacterial and fungal …

Loss of cold tolerance is conferred by absence of the WRKY34 promoter fragment during tomato evolution

M Guo, F Yang, L Zhu, L Wang, Z Li, Z Qi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural evolution has resulted in reduced cold tolerance in cultivated tomato (Solanum
lycopersicum). Herein, we perform a combined analysis of ATAC-Seq and RNA-Seq in cold …

Coordinated epigenetic regulation in plants: a potent managerial tool to conquer biotic stress

CY Huang, H Jin - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plants have evolved variable phenotypic plasticity to counteract different pathogens and
pests during immobile life. Microbial infection invokes multiple layers of host immune …

Exploiting epigenetic variations for crop disease resistance improvement

P Zhi, C Chang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pathogen infections seriously threaten plant health and global crop production. Epigenetic
processes such as DNA methylation, histone post-translational modifications, chromatin …

Organization, genomic targeting, and assembly of three distinct SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes in Arabidopsis

W Fu, Y Yu, J Shu, Z Yu, Y Zhong, T Zhu, Z Zhang… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Switch defective/sucrose nonfermentable (SWI/SNF) complexes are evolutionarily
conserved multisubunit machines that play vital roles in chromatin architecture regulation for …

Transcriptional regulation of plant innate immunity

N Aerts, H Chhillar, P Ding… - Essays in …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Transcriptional reprogramming is an integral part of plant immunity. Tight regulation of the
immune transcriptome is essential for a proper response of plants to different types of …

SH3P2, an SH3 domain-containing protein that interacts with both Pib and AvrPib, suppresses effector-triggered, Pib-mediated immunity in rice

Y Xie, Y Wang, X Yu, Y Lin, Y Zhu, J Chen, H Xie… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Plants usually keep resistance (R) proteins in a static state under normal conditions to avoid
autoimmunity and save energy for growth, but R proteins can be rapidly activated upon …