IC4R008-Epigenomic-2012- 22835977
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Project Title
- Epigenomic Modification and Epigenetic Regulation in Rice
The Background of This Project
- Epigenomes define gene expression profiles in specific cell types or in response to specific environmental cues in higher eukaryotes. Rice is the largest food plant in the world and becomes as a model plant for cereal genomics because of its small genome size (430 Mb). Whole-genome sequences are available for japonica and indica, two of the three subspecies of rice that have been independently domesticated from wild relatives. Recent studies have accumulated a large set of rice transcriptomic, small RNA, DNA methylation and histone modification data obtained by high throughput analyses (http://rice.plantbiology. msu.edu/cgi-bin/gbrowse/rice/). Work in plants including rice has revealed specific mechanisms involved in acquisition, inheritance and resetting of epigenetic information. In this review, we will summarize recent development in rice epigenomic and epigenetic research by focussing on epigenetic regulation of rice transposon repression, plant development, stress adaptation, and gene expression related to heterosis.
Research Findings
Labs working on this Project
- National Key Laboratory for Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Institut de Biologie des Plantes, Universite´ Paris sud, Orsay 91405, France
Corresponding Author
- D.-X. Zhou: dao-xiu.zhou@u-psud.fr
