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New component of the RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) machinery discovered
Published online today in the journal Current Biology, the Matzke lab reports on the discovery of a new piece of the RdDM machinery responsible for transposon silencing in plants.
Heritability of stress-induced chromatin changes: a review
Published recently in Plant & Cell Physiology, Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid and Ales Pecinka provide a critical review on the heritability of stress-induced chromatin changes.
Failure of RNA quality control elicits pathogen response
Published online today in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, Claudia Jonak and Karel Riha report on the developmental consequences of failure of quality control mechanisms to eliminate aberrant RNA transcripts.
Stress-induced metabolic rearrangements and regulatory networks
A recent paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany by Julia Krasensky and Claudia Jonak reviews the plant metabolic responses to drought, salt and temperature stress.
Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation
Published today in Nature Genetics, Magnus Nordborg and colleagues have produced a high-resolution description of the global pattern of genetic variation in Arabidopsis.
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