Mechanisms underlying transposable element load variation in Arabidopsis
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellJiang et al. explore the mechanisms underlying transposable element load variation in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad296
By Juan Jiang (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Ya-Long Guo (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Arabidopsis long non-coding RNAs: an orchestrated hubbub
The Plant Cell: In a NutshellKornienko et al. discover that Arabidopsis genome is full of long-non-coding RNAs that show their expression only in specific tissues and plants from different geographic origins because of differences in epigenetic silencing of these genes.
Plant Cell - https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad233
By Aleksandra…
URM Plant Scientist Highlights - Dawn Nagel (she/her)
BlogDawn Nagel (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UC Riverside. She has been a faculty member at UCR since 2016. Dawn was born and raised in Guyana as the youngest of three children. As an undergraduate, she studied general biology…