The important contribution of transposable elements to phenotypic variation and evolution

NS Catlin, EB Josephs - Current opinion in plant biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Transposable elements (TEs) are responsible for significant genomic variation in plants. Our
understanding of the evolutionary forces shaping TE polymorphism has lagged behind other …

A cis-regulatory atlas in maize at single-cell resolution

AP Marand, Z Chen, A Gallavotti, RJ Schmitz - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary cis-regulatory elements (CREs) encode the genomic blueprints of spatiotemporal
gene expression programs enabling highly specialized cell functions. Using single-cell …

Genome-wide analyses of introgression between two sympatric Asian oak species

R Fu, Y Zhu, Y Liu, Y Feng, RS Lu, Y Li, P Li… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Introgression can be an important source of new alleles for adaption under rapidly changing
environments, perhaps even more important than standing variation. Though introgression …

Mapping regulatory determinants in plants

M Galli, F Feng, A Gallavotti - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The domestication and improvement of many plant species have frequently involved
modulation of transcriptional outputs and continue to offer much promise for targeted trait …

Conserved noncoding sequences provide insights into regulatory sequence and loss of gene expression in maize

B Song, ES Buckler, H Wang, Y Wu, E Rees… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Thousands of species will be sequenced in the next few years; however, understanding how
their genomes work, without an unlimited budget, requires both molecular and novel …

A comprehensive annotation dataset of intact LTR retrotransposons of 300 plant genomes

SS Zhou, XM Yan, KF Zhang, H Liu, J Xu, S Nie, KH Jia… - Scientific Data, 2021 - nature.com
LTR retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are ubiquitous and represent the dominant repeat element
in plant genomes, playing important roles in functional variation, genome plasticity and …

Canalization of genome-wide transcriptional activity in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions by MET1-dependent CG methylation

T Srikant, W Yuan, KW Berendzen… - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Despite its conserved role on gene expression and transposable element (TE)
silencing, genome-wide CG methylation differs substantially between wild Arabidopsis …

Enhancers as potential targets for engineering salinity stress tolerance in crop plants

M Jain, R Garg - Physiologia plantarum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancers represent noncoding regulatory regions of the genome located distantly from
their target genes. They regulate gene expression programs in a context‐specific manner …

Genetic and epigenetic contributions to variation in transposable element expression responses to abiotic stress in maize

Z Liang, SN Anderson, JM Noshay, PA Crisp… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Transposable elements (TEs) pervade most eukaryotic genomes but the repetitive nature of
TEs has complicated the analysis of their expression. Although the majority of TEs are silent …