supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.32270288 to W.Q.;grant no.32400245 to J.L.);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2024M760519 to W.L.);the Beijing Life Science Academy(2024500CA0010 to W.Q.).
It has been hypothesized that DNA damage has the potential to induce DNA hypermethylation,contributing to carcinogenesis in mammals.However,there is no sufficient evidence to support that DNA damage can cause genome-w...
Recently,increasing evidence suggests that DNA methylation plays a crucial role in fruit ripening.However,the role of DNA methylation in regulating specific traits,such as flavor,remains unclear.Here,we report a role ...
This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.31788103);to J.L.and Y.Q.and the National Key R&D Program of China(grant no.2016YFA0500800);to Y.Q.Y.Q.is a visiting investigator of the CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences.
Tillering is a major determinant of rice plant architecture and grain yield.Here,we report that depletion of rice OsNRPD1a and OsNRPD1b,two orthologs of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase IV,leads to a high-tilleri...
Small RNAs are found in eukaryotes and are responsible for regulation of chromatin structure, RNA processing and stability, translation and transcription. 24-nt small interfering RNA (siRNA) are known to mediate gene ...
Heat stress affects epigenetic gene silencing in Arabidopsis. To test for a mechanistic involvement of epige-netic regulation in heat-stress responses, we analyzed the heat tolerance of mutants defective in DNA methyl...