The juvenile‐to‐adult vegetative phase change in flowering plants is mediated by a decrease in miR156 levels. Downregulation of Here, we show that histone deacetylase 9 (HDA9) is recruited to H2Aub and H3K27me3 become enriched at Our results suggest that PKL associates with histone deacetylases to erase H3K27ac and promote PRC1 and PRC2 activities to mediate vegetative phase change and maintain plants in the adult phase after the phase transition.
Evolutionarily conserved DEK domain‐containing proteins have been implicated in multiple chromatin‐related processes, mRNA splicing and transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes. Here, we show that two DEK proteins, DEK3 and DEK4, control the floral transition in The binding of DEK3 and DEK4 to a histone octamer Our results show that DEK3 and DEK4 directly interact with chromatin to facilitate the transcription of key flowering repressors and thus prevent precocious flowering in
- Award ID(s):
- 1656764
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10450167
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- New Phytologist
- Volume:
- 231
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 0028-646X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 182-192
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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