Chromatin remodeling factors regulate environmental stress responses in plants

ZT Song, JX Liu, JJ Han - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental stress from climate change and agricultural activity threatens global plant
biodiversity as well as crop yield and quality. As sessile organisms, plants must maintain the …

The Sorghum bicolor reference genome: improved assembly, gene annotations, a transcriptome atlas, and signatures of genome organization

RF McCormick, SK Truong, A Sreedasyam… - The Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Sorghum bicolor is a drought tolerant C4 grass used for the production of grain, forage,
sugar, and lignocellulosic biomass and a genetic model for C4 grasses due to its relatively …

MaizeGDB update: new tools, data and interface for the maize model organism database

CM Andorf, EK Cannon, JL Portwood… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
MaizeGDB is a highly curated, community-oriented database and informatics service to
researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays ssp. mays. Although …

Accessible DNA and relative depletion of H3K9me2 at maize loci undergoing RNA-directed DNA methylation

JI Gent, TF Madzima, R Bader, MR Kent, X Zhang… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) in plants is a well-characterized example of RNA
interference-related transcriptional gene silencing. To determine the relationships between …

ISWI proteins participate in the genome‐wide nucleosome distribution in Arabidopsis

G Li, S Liu, J Wang, J He, H Huang, Y Zhang… - The Plant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Chromatin is a highly organized structure with repetitive nucleosome subunits. Nucleosome
distribution patterns, which contain information on epigenetic controls, are dynamically …

Advances in understanding cis regulation of the plant gene with an emphasis on comparative genomics

DG Burgess, J Xu, M Freeling - Current opinion in plant biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Chromatin accessibility and chromatin looping dynamically regulate
transcription.•Transcription factor binding is not equal to transcription factor function.•The …

Differential nuclease sensitivity profiling of chromatin reveals biochemical footprints coupled to gene expression and functional DNA elements in maize

DL Vera, TF Madzima, JD Labonne, MP Alam… - The Plant …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The eukaryotic genome is organized into nucleosomes, the fundamental units of chromatin.
The positions of nucleosomes on DNA regulate protein-DNA interactions and in turn …

Determinants of nucleosome positioning and their influence on plant gene expression

MJ Liu, AE Seddon, ZTY Tsai, IT Major, M Floer… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Nucleosome positioning influences the access of transcription factors (TFs) to their binding
sites and gene expression. Studies in plant, animal, and fungal models demonstrate similar …

A dynamic meiotic SUN belt includes the zygotene-stage telomere bouquet and is disrupted in chromosome segregation mutants of maize (Zea mays L.)

SP Murphy, HK Gumber, Y Mao, HW Bass - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The nuclear envelope (NE) plays an essential role in meiotic telomere behavior and links
the cytoplasm and nucleoplasm during homologous chromosome pairing and …

The chromatin remodeler ZmCHB101 impacts expression of osmotic stress-responsive genes in maize

X Yu, X Meng, Y Liu, N Li, A Zhang, TJ Wang… - Plant molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Key message The maize chromatin remodeler ZmCHB101 plays an essential role in the
osmotic stress response. ZmCHB101 controls nucleosome densities around transcription …