Osmotic stress

Comprehensive gene expression analysis of the DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferase family in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

F. Ahmad, Huang, X., Lan, H. X., Huma, T., Bao, Y. M., Huang, J., and Zhang, H. S., “Comprehensive gene expression analysis of the DNA (cytosine-5) methyltransferase family in rice (Oryza sativa L.)”, vol. 13, pp. 5159-5172, 2014.

Cytosine DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic regulatory mechanism in both plants and animals. DNA methyltransferases (DNA MTases) not only initiate (de novo) but also maintain the process of DNA methylation. Here, we characterized the genome-wide expression profiles of 10 cytosine DNA MTase genes belonging to 4 subfamilies, MET1, CMT, DNMT2, and DRM, in rice.

DNA methylation involved in proline accumulation in response to osmotic stress in rice (Oryza sativa)

C. Y. Zhang, Wang, N. N., Zhang, Y. H., Feng, Q. Z., Yang, C. W., and Liu, B., “DNA methylation involved in proline accumulation in response to osmotic stress in rice (Oryza sativa)”, vol. 12, pp. 1269-1277, 2013.

Proline accumulation is involved in plant osmotic stress tolerance. Given that DNA methylation is related to almost all metabolic processes through regulation of gene expression, we suspected that this epigenetic modification and proline biosynthesis are probably related. To test this, we investigated whether osmotic stress-induced proline accumulation is associated with DNA methylation modifications in rice.

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