Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 19, Plant Epigenetics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Meyer, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405173056
• Artikelnr.: 38444759

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Transgene silencing. Ann Depicker and Matthew Sanders
University of Gent
Belgium and Peter Meyer
Centre for Plant Sciences
University of Leeds
UK. 2. RNA interference: double-stranded RNAs and the processing machinery. 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
IPK Gatersleben
Germany; David Kreil
Department of Genetics/Inference Group
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 in plants. Gunter Reuter
A Fischer and I Hofmann
Martin Luther University
Institute for Genetics
Halle
Germany. 5. When alleles meet: paramutation. Marieke Louwers
Max Haring and Maike Stam
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam
The Netherlands. 6. Genomic imprinting in plants: a predominantly maternal affair. Ueli Grossniklaus
Institute of Plant Biology
University of Zürich
Switzerland. 7. Nucleolar dominance and rRNA gene dosage control: a paradigm for transcriptional regulation via an epigenetic on/off switch. Nuno Neves and Wanda Viegas
Faculty of Science and Technology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Monte da Caparica
Portugal and Craig Pikaard
Biology Department
Washington University
Missouri
USA. 8. Virus induced gene silencing. Tamas Dalmay
School of Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia
UK. 9. MicroRNAs: micro-managing the plant genome. Sandra Floyd and John Bowman
Section of Plant Biology
University of California at Davis.