摘要
Epigenomes including genome-wide histone modification and DNA methylation profiles are important for genome activity and fof defining gene expression patterns of plant development and responses to various environmental conditions. Rice is the most important crop plant and serves as a model for cereal genomics. Rice epigenomic landscape is emerging and the function of chromatin modification regulators in gene expression, transposon repression and plant development is being characterized. Epigenomic variation that gives rise to stable or transgenerational heritable epialleles related to variation of important agronomical traits or stress responses is being characterized in rice. Implication of epigenomic variation in rice heterosis is being exploited.
Epigenomes including genome-wide histone modification and DNA methylation profiles are important for genome activity and fof defining gene expression patterns of plant development and responses to various environmental conditions. Rice is the most important crop plant and serves as a model for cereal genomics. Rice epigenomic landscape is emerging and the function of chromatin modification regulators in gene expression, transposon repression and plant development is being characterized. Epigenomic variation that gives rise to stable or transgenerational heritable epialleles related to variation of important agronomical traits or stress responses is being characterized in rice. Implication of epigenomic variation in rice heterosis is being exploited.
基金
supported by a grant of the Transgenic Program of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (No.2009ZX08009-078B)
the National High-Tech R&D Program(863 Program)on rice functional genomics of the Ministry ofScience and Technology(Nos.2012AA10A303 and 2012AA10A304)
supported by the program blanc CERES of the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche
