Temporal dynamics of gene expression and histone marks at the Arabidopsis shoot meristem during flowering

Yuan You, Aneta Sawikowska, Manuela Neumann, David Posé, Giovanna Capovilla, Tobias Langenecker, Richard A. Neher, Paweł Krajewski and Markus Schmid ()
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Yuan You: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Aneta Sawikowska: Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Manuela Neumann: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
David Posé: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Giovanna Capovilla: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Tobias Langenecker: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Richard A. Neher: Evolutionary Dynamics and Biophysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Paweł Krajewski: Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Markus Schmid: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Abstract Plants can produce organs throughout their entire life from pluripotent stem cells located at their growing tip, the shoot apical meristem (SAM). At the time of flowering, the SAM of Arabidopsis thaliana switches fate and starts producing flowers instead of leaves. Correct timing of flowering in part determines reproductive success, and is therefore under environmental and endogenous control. How epigenetic regulation contributes to the floral transition has eluded analysis so far, mostly because of the poor accessibility of the SAM. Here we report the temporal dynamics of the chromatin modifications H3K4me3 and H3K27me3 and their correlation with transcriptional changes at the SAM in response to photoperiod-induced flowering. Emphasizing the importance of tissue-specific epigenomic analyses we detect enrichments of chromatin states in the SAM that were not apparent in whole seedlings. Furthermore, our results suggest that regulation of translation might be involved in adjusting meristem function during the induction of flowering.

Date: 2017
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