DNA methylation is a chromatin modification that is often associated with the exciti ng and sometimes unpredictable patter ns of inheritanee that can unfold with epigenetic phenomena. The stability and heritability of...DNA methylation is a chromatin modification that is often associated with the exciti ng and sometimes unpredictable patter ns of inheritanee that can unfold with epigenetic phenomena. The stability and heritability of DNA methylati on patter ns perhaps allow us to utilize DNA methylation profiles to distil the suite of potentially functional elements in large crop genomes. Here, we discuss the potential and possible ways to use the absence of DNA methylation to identify potential regulatory regions within intergenic sequences and the presence of DNA methylation to identify pseudogenes.展开更多
Climate change is making it more challenging to meet the food demands of a growing global population.Increased food produc-tion relies on continual crop improvements to generate higher and more stable yields,especiall...Climate change is making it more challenging to meet the food demands of a growing global population.Increased food produc-tion relies on continual crop improvements to generate higher and more stable yields,especially with increasingly unpredictable environments and less arable land.The improvement of traits that promote climate resilience and resource utilization,for example,greater photosynthetic capacity,increased nitrogen use efficiency,and optimized root and shoot architecture,repre-sents a promising avenue for engineering crops to yield more with less(Evans and Lawson,2020).A key challenge for crop engineering is optimizing performance in specific environments.展开更多
文摘DNA methylation is a chromatin modification that is often associated with the exciti ng and sometimes unpredictable patter ns of inheritanee that can unfold with epigenetic phenomena. The stability and heritability of DNA methylati on patter ns perhaps allow us to utilize DNA methylation profiles to distil the suite of potentially functional elements in large crop genomes. Here, we discuss the potential and possible ways to use the absence of DNA methylation to identify potential regulatory regions within intergenic sequences and the presence of DNA methylation to identify pseudogenes.
基金supported by the Australian Rsearch Council(ARC)Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology(CE 141000080 )and CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Sclence Platform.LT.H.received fundng from the ARC(DP190102185).P A.C.was suppoted by an ARC Discovery Early Career Award(DE200101748).
文摘Climate change is making it more challenging to meet the food demands of a growing global population.Increased food produc-tion relies on continual crop improvements to generate higher and more stable yields,especially with increasingly unpredictable environments and less arable land.The improvement of traits that promote climate resilience and resource utilization,for example,greater photosynthetic capacity,increased nitrogen use efficiency,and optimized root and shoot architecture,repre-sents a promising avenue for engineering crops to yield more with less(Evans and Lawson,2020).A key challenge for crop engineering is optimizing performance in specific environments.
