Meyer Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 19, Plant Epigenetics

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7305-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Annual Plant Reviews

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 thisfield, and the common elements of epigenetic systems have linkedresearch groups interested in plant, fungal and animal systems.
This volume provides a comprehensive overview epigeneticmechanisms and biological processes in plants, illustrating thewider relevance of this research to work in other plant scienceareas and on non-plant systems. It discusses recent advances in ourknowledge of basic mechanisms and molecular components that controltranscriptional and post-transcriptional silencing, anunderstanding of which is essential for plant researchers who usetransgenic lines for stable expression of a recombinant constructor for targeted inactivation of an endogenous gene. These aspectsshould be of special interest to the agricultural industry.
The volume illustrates the relevance of epigenetic controlsystems to gene regulation and plant development, examiningparamutation, genomic imprinting and microRNA-based gene regulationmechanisms. Finally, it demonstrates the significance of epigeneticsystems to viral defence and genome organisation.
The volume is directed at researchers and professionals in plantmolecular genetics, plant biochemistry and plant developmentalbiology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyer, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Transgene silencing.
Ann Depicker and Matthew Sanders, University of Gent, Belgiumand Peter Meyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds,UK.
2. RNA interference: double-stranded RNAs and the processingmachinery.
Jan Kooter, Department of Genetics, Vrije University Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
3. RNA-mediated DNA methylation.
Marjori Matzke, Tatsuo Kanno, Bruno Huettel and Estelle Jaligot,Gregor Mendel-Institut, Vienna, Austria; M. Florian Mette, IPKGatersleben, Germany; David Kreil, Department of Genetics/InferenceGroup, University of Cambridge, UK; Lucia Daxinger, Philipp Rovina,Werner Aufsatz and Antonius Matzke, Gregor Mendel-Institut, Vienna,Austria.
4. Heterochromatin and the control of gene silencing inplants.
Gunter Reuter, A Fischer and I Hofmann, Martin LutherUniversity, Institute for Genetics, Halle, Germany.
5. When alleles meet: paramutation.
Marieke Louwers, Max Haring and Maike Stam, Swammerdam Institutefor Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands.
6. Genomic imprinting in plants: a predominantly maternalaffair.
Ueli Grossniklaus, Institute of Plant Biology, University ofZürich, Switzerland.
7. Nucleolar dominance and rRNA gene dosage control: aparadigm for transcriptional regulation via an epigenetic on/offswitch.
Nuno Neves and Wanda Viegas, Faculty of Science and Technology,Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte da Caparica, Portugal and CraigPikaard, Biology Department, Washington University, Missouri,USA.
8. Virus induced gene silencing.
Tamas Dalmay, School of Biological Sciences, University of EastAnglia, UK.
9. MicroRNAs: micro-managing the plant genome.
Sandra Floyd and John Bowman, Section of Plant Biology,University of California at Davis.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Peter Meyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, UK