Methylation Changes in Plant–Virus Interactions
A special issue of International Journal of Plant Biology (ISSN 2037-0164).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 328
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plants have developed diverse molecular mechanisms to resist viruses, among which RNA silencing plays a dominant role in antiviral defense. To date, several studies have correlated plant antiviral silencing with epigenetic modification in genomic DNA and protein by remodeling the expression levels of coding genes, which is a somewhat simplistic outline of reprogramming the gene expression, but in reality, it is far from simple. The plant host methylation level is reprogrammed in response to the viral challenge, while the genomes of some viruses are implicated in the epigenetic modification via small RNA-mediated transcriptional gene silencing and post-transcriptional gene silencing.
For the forthcoming Special Issue of the International Journal of Plant Biology, we invite you to submit research articles, review articles, short notes, as well as communications related to this topic. This Special Issue will provide an overview of recent research, including fundamental as well as applied studies, aiming to increase our knowledge of the molecular biology behind virus–plant interaction, either RNA or DNA virus. The issue will also offer the opportunity to explore how these changes contribute to plant defense or viral counter defense and the role played by non-coding RNA in the dynamic action of epigenetic reprogramming to illustrate the inherent synergism between methylation and antiviral silencing and provide new insights into plant antiviral defense.
We look forward to your contribution.
Dr. Anna Vittoria Carluccio
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- methylation
- RNA virus
- DNA virus
- RNA-induced DNA methylation
- transcriptional gene silencing
- suppressors
- small RNA
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