As sessile species and without the possibility of escape, plants constantly face numerous
environmental stresses. To adapt in the external environmental cues, plants adjust …

Temperature is a key factor governing the growth and development, distribution, and
seasonal behavior of plants. The entire plant life cycle is affected by environmental …

A large and significant portion of eukaryotic transcriptomes consists of noncoding RNAs
(ncRNAs) that have minimal or no protein-coding capacity but are functional. Diverse …

Plants grow in dynamic environments where they can be exposed to a multitude of stressful
factors, all of which affect their development, yield, and, ultimately, reproductive success …

Plants respond to the changing seasons to initiate developmental programmes precisely at
particular times of year. Flowering is the best characterized of these seasonal responses …

Epigenetic phenomena in animals and plants are mediated by DNA methylation and stable
chromatin modifications. There has been considerable interest in whether environmental …

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been proposed to play important roles in gene
regulation. However, their importance in epigenetic silencing and how specificity is …

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) affect gene regulation through structural and regulatory
interactions with associated proteins. The Polycomb complex often binds to lncRNAs in …

In plants, restoring intercellular communication is required for cell activity in buds during the
growth transition from slow to fast growth after dormancy release. However, the epigenetic …

Our understanding of the detailed molecular mechanisms underpinning adaptation is still
poor. One example for which mechanistic understanding of regulation has converged with …