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 micro RNA-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.
Innehållsförteckning
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 r RNA 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. Micro RNAs: micro-managing the plant genome.
Sandra Floyd and John Bowman, Section of Plant Biology,
University of California at Davis.
Om författaren
Professor Peter Meyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds, UK
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