Long noncoding RNAs in plants

AT Wierzbicki, T Blevins… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Plants have an extraordinary diversity of transcription machineries, including five nuclear
DNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Four of these enzymes are dedicated to the production …

Non-canonical RNA-directed DNA methylation

D Cuerda-Gil, RK Slotkin - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
Small RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) has been extensively studied in plants,
resulting in a deep understanding of a major 'canonical RdDM'mechanism. However, current …

[HTML][HTML] RNA-directed DNA methylation

RM Erdmann, CL Picard - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) is a biological process in which non-coding RNA
molecules direct the addition of DNA methylation to specific DNA sequences. The RdDM …

[HTML][HTML] Extrachromosomal circular DNA and structural variants highlight genome instability in Arabidopsis epigenetic mutants

P Zhang, A Mbodj, A Soundiramourtty, C Llauro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abundant extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) is associated with transposable
element (TE) activity. However, how the eccDNA compartment is controlled by epigenetic …

Exploiting induced and natural epigenetic variation for crop improvement

NM Springer, RJ Schmitz - Nature reviews genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Plant breeding has traditionally relied on combining the genetic diversity present within a
species to develop combinations of alleles that provide desired traits. Epigenetic diversity …

The histone H3. 1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication

H Davarinejad, YC Huang, B Mermaz, C LeBlanc… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The tail of replication-dependent histone H3. 1 varies from that of replication-independent
H3. 3 at the amino acid located at position 31 in plants and animals, but no function has …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation dynamics during early plant life

D Bouyer, A Kramdi, M Kassam, M Heese, A Schnittger… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Cytosine methylation is crucial for gene regulation and silencing of
transposable elements in mammals and plants. While this epigenetic mark is extensively …

[HTML][HTML] An siRNA-guided ARGONAUTE protein directs RNA polymerase V to initiate DNA methylation

MJ Sigman, K Panda, R Kirchner, LL McLain, H Payne… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
In mammals and plants, cytosine DNA methylation is essential for the epigenetic repression
of transposable elements and foreign DNA. In plants, DNA methylation is guided by small …

[HTML][HTML] How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?

B Liu, M Zhao - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Plant genomes are littered with transposable elements (TEs). Because TEs are potentially
highly mutagenic, host organisms have evolved a set of defense mechanisms to recognize …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and characterisation of hypomethylated DNA loci controlling quantitative resistance in Arabidopsis

L Furci, R Jain, J Stassen, O Berkowitz, J Whelan… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Variation in DNA methylation enables plants to inherit traits independently of changes to
DNA sequence. Here, we have screened an Arabidopsis population of epigenetic …