Abstract

In June 2015, the fourth European Workshop on Plant Chromatin took place in Uppsala, Sweden, bringing together 80 researchers studying various aspects of plant chromatin and epigenetics. The intricate relationships between plant chromatin dynamics and gene expression change, chromatin organization within the plant cell nucleus, and the impact of chromatin structure on plant development were discussed. Among the main highlights of the meeting were an ever-growing list of newly identified players in chromatin structure establishment and the development of novel tools and approaches to foster our understanding of chromatin-mediated gene regulation, taking into account the context of the plant cell nucleus and its architecture. In this report, we summarize some of the main advances and prospects of plant chromatin research presented at this meeting.

Keywords

chromatin; development; epigenetics; histone variant; histone modification; nucleus; plant

Published in

Epigenetics
2015, Volume: 10, number: 11, pages: 1084-1090
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

SLU Authors

• Mozgova, Iva

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Köhler, Claudia

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hennig, Lars

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Cell Biology
Genetics


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2015.1106674

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/72363