Epigenetics in Plant Development
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Development and Morphogenesis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 354
Special Issue Editor
Interests: flowering transition; sporocyte specification; plant developmental biology; epigenetics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants is establishing a Special Issue on "Epigenetics in Plant Development". Epigenetic regulation is essential for controlling spatiotemporal gene expression during plant development. It also enables the plasticity of gene expression in response to environmental stimuli. Thus, epigenetic gene regulation provides insights into developmental regulation, phenotypic plasticity, and environmental adaptation.
This Special Issue will consider research papers and review papers on plant epigenetics, particularly on the molecular mechanisms of plant epigenetics, epigenetic gene regulation and priming and epigenetic memory and their roles in plant development.
Prof. Dr. Hongchun Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- epigenetics
- gene regulation
- DNA methylation
- DNA demethylation
- histone modifications
- RNA-directed DNA methylation
- siRNAs
- plant development
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