Chromatin-Based Transcriptional Reprogramming in Plants under Abiotic Stresses

Plants’ stress response machinery is characterized by an intricate network of signaling cascades that receive and transmit environmental cues and ultimately trigger transcriptional reprogramming. The family of epigenetic regulators that are the key players in the stress-induced signaling cascade comprise of chromatin remodelers, histone modifiers, DNA modifiers and regulatory non-coding RNAs. Changes in the histone modification and DNA methylation lead to major alterations in the expression level and pattern of stress-responsive genes to adjust with abiotic stress conditions namely heat, cold, drought and salinity. The spotlight of this review falls primarily on the chromatin restructuring under severe abiotic stresses, crosstalk between epigenetic regulators along with a brief discussion on stress priming in plants.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Plants

• Publication date

  2022-05-29

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3390/plants11111449PMID 35684223PMCID 9182740
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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