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Yunmin Xu1, Lu Zhang1, Gang Wu1
1State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China.
Abstract:
Epigenetic regulation is referred to as changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence, it is usually accomplished by DNA methylation, histone modifications (repressive marks such as H3K9me, H3K27me, H2Aub, or active marks such as H3K4me, H3K36me, H3Ac), and chromatin remodeling (nucleosome composition, occupancy, and location). In plants, the shoot apex produces different lateral organs during development to give rise to distinguishable phases of a juvenile, an adult and a reproductive phase after embryogenesis. The juvenile-to-adult transition is a key developmental event in plant life cycle, and it is regulated by a decrease in the expression of a conserved microRNA-miR156/157, and a corresponding increase in the expression of its target genes encoding a set of plant specific SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE (SPL) proteins. Recent work has revealed that the miR156/157-SPL pathway is the master regulator of juvenile-to-adult transition in plants, and genes in this pathway are subjected to epigenetic regulation, such as DNA methylation, histone modifications, and chromatin remodeling. In this review, we summarized the recent progress in understanding the epigenetic regulation of the miR156/157-SPL pathway during juvenile-to-adult transition and bring forward some perspectives of future research in this field.
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