Plant Epigenetics (Hardcover (Trade Cloth)) Product Description
Plant Epigenetics With the discovery of RNAi pathways and the histone code, epigenetics has become a popular and fast evolving research topic. Plant science has made a number of elementary contributions to this field, and the common elements of epigenetic systems have linked research groups interested in plant, fungal and animal systems. This volume provides a comprehensive overview epigenetic mechanisms and biological processes in plants, illustrating the wider relevance of this research to work in other plant science areas and on non-plant systems. It discusses recent advances in our knowledge of basic mechanisms and molecular components that control transcriptional and post-transcriptional silencing, an understanding of which is essential for plant researchers who use transgenic lines for stable expression of a recombinant construct or for targeted inactivation of an endogenous gene. These aspects should be of special interest to the agricultural industry. The volume illustrates the relevance of epigenetic control systems to gene regulation and plant development, examining paramutation, genomic imprinting and microRNA-based gene regulation mechanisms. Finally, it demonstrates the significance of epigenetic systems to viral defence and genome organisation. The volume is directed at researchers and professionals in plant molecular genetics, plant biochemistry and plant developmental biology. . Transgene silencingnn Depicker and Matthew Sanders, University of Gent, Belgium andeter Meyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, UK. RNA interference double-stranded RNAs and the processing machineryan Kooter, Department of Genetics, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. RNA-mediated DNA methylationarjori Matzke, Tatsuo Kanno, Bruno Huettel and Estelle Jaligot, Gregor Mendel-Institut, Vienna, Austria. Florian Mette, IPK Gatersleben, Germanyavid Kreil, Department of GeneticsInference Group, University of Cambridge, UKucia Daxinger, Philipp Rovina, Werner Aufsatz and Antonius Matzke, Gregor Mendel-Institut, Vienna, Austria. Heterochromatin and the control of gene silencing in plantsunter Reuter, A Fischer and I Hofmann, Martin Luther University, Institute for Genetics, Halle, Germany. When alleles meet paramutationarieke Louwers, Max Haring and Maike Stam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Genomic imprinting in plants a predominantly maternal affaireli Grossniklaus, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zrich, Switzerland. Nucleolar dominance and rRNA gene dosage control a paradigm for transcriptional regulation via an epigenetic onoff switchuno Neves and Wanda Viegas, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica, Portugal andraig Pikaard, Biology Department, Washington University, Missouri, USA. Virus induced gene silencingamas Dalmay, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. MicroRNAs micro-managing
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Plant Epigenetics (Hardcover (Trade Cloth))
