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Front Biol    2011, Vol. 6 Issue (6) : 477-481    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11515-011-1128-4
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Epigenetics, a mode for plants to respond to abiotic stresses
Weihua QIAO1(), Liumin FAN2()
1. Insititute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Genetic Engineering Peking-Yale Joint Center of Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Abstract

Epigenetics has been becoming a hot topic in recent years. It can be mechanisms that regulate gene expression without changing DNA base sequence. In plants epigenetic regulation has been implicated to be a very important phenomenon and mechanism for the regulation of responses to environmental stresses. Environmental signals induce various epigenetic modifications in the genome, and these epigenetic modifications might likely be inherited to the next generation that behaves with enhanced ability to tolerate stresses. This review highlights recent advances in the study of epigenetics in plant stress responses.
Keywords Epigenetics      chromatin      genome      environmental stress      histone modification     
Corresponding Author(s): QIAO Weihua,Email:qiao@caas.net.cn; FAN Liumin,Email:lmfan@pku.edu.cn   
Issue Date: 01 December 2011
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Weihua QIAO,Liumin FAN. Epigenetics, a mode for plants to respond to abiotic stresses[J]. Front Biol, 2011, 6(6): 477-481.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fib/EN/10.1007/s11515-011-1128-4
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fib/EN/Y2011/V6/I6/477
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Domains rearranged methyltransferase (DRM) (CG, CNG and CNN)Contributes to de novo methylation in all sequence contextsTabacooWada et al., 2003; Wada 2005
Chromomethylase (CMT)Maintain CNG methylation in heterochromatin and silencing of methylated lociArabidopsis; maizeBartee et al., 2001; Papa et al., 2001
Methyltransferase (MET1)DNA methylation at CG sitesArabidopsis; carrot; pea; tomato and maizeFinnegan and Kovac, 2000
Glycerophosphodiesterase-like protein (NtGPDL)Aluminum, low temperature and salt stress can induce DNA demethylation in the coding regionTabacooChoi and Sano, 2007
Histone H3K9 methyltransferase; SDG33Histone methylation of Lys 9Tabacoo; ArabidopsisShen, 2001; Johnson et al., 2002
Methyl binding domain protein; MBD1 to 13Associated with histone and Some MBDs recognize methyl-cytosineArabidopsisZemach and Grafi, 2003
Histone deacetylase 19 HDA19; AtRPD3AResponse to Jasmonic Acid and Ethylene Signaling induced by stressArabidopsisZhou et al., 2005
DICER; DICER-LIKE; (DCL) 1, 2, 3, 4Cuts dsRNA into small fragmentsArabidopsisSchauer et al., 2002
RNA-denpendent RNA polymerase; RDR 1 to 6; SDE1/SGS2Amplifies microRNAsArabidopsis; Tabacoo (Nicotiana benthamiana)Dalmay et al., 2000; Mourrain et al., 2000; Vaistij et al., 2002
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