Role of Epigenetics and Epigenomics in Plant Development and Their Association with Abiotic Environmental Stresses

In this Special Issue, we focus on the current understanding of the regulation and function of the epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, histone modification, histone variants, some non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and epigenomics, in plant development, such as stomatal development, vernalization, fruit ripening and other developmental processes. This Special Issue also covers the tight associations between epigenetic modifications and a wide range of abiotic environmental stresses, including heat, cold, drought, high salinity, pesticides, climate change and other conditions. During the past two decades, epigenetic and epigenomic investigations have been carried out on a number of plant species, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, Zea mays, Oryza sativa and Brassica rapa. We are still far away from elucidating the crosstalk among the underlying epigenetic molecular mechanisms and epigenomic regulators.

Authors are invited to submit original research and review articles on the following areas and related areas that are not mentioned here:

• Role of epigenetics and epigenomics in plant growth and development;
• Dynamic regulation of epigenetics and epigenomics in response to abiotic environmental stresses in plants, and in epigenetic transgeneration stress adaptation;
• Epigenetics and its association with gene regulation, transposon silencing and chromosomal interaction;
• Crosstalk among distinct epigenetic regulatory pathways.

Prof. Dr. Lijia Li
Dr. Mayank Gautam
Guest Editors

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