Embryonic epigenetic reprogramming by a pioneer transcription factor in plants

Zeng Tao, Lisha Shen, Xiaofeng Gu, Yizhong Wang, Hao Yu and Yuehui He ()
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Zeng Tao: Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Lisha Shen: National University of Singapore
Xiaofeng Gu: National University of Singapore
Yizhong Wang: Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Hao Yu: National University of Singapore
Yuehui He: Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Nature, 2017, vol. 551, issue 7678, 124-128

Abstract: The seed-specific transcription factor LEC1 promotes an active chromatin state at the floral repressor FLC and activates its expression in the Arabidopsis pro-embryo, thus reversing the winter cold-induced silenced state that is inherited from gametes.

Date: 2017
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