Plant Epigenetics presents, in 26 chapters, the status quo in epigenomic profiling. It discusses how functional information can be indirectly inferred and describes the new approaches that promise functional answers, collectively referred to as epigenome editing. It highlights the latest important advances in our understanding of the functions of plant epigenomics and new technologies for the study of epigenomic marks and mechanisms in plants. Topics include the deposition or removal of chromatin modifications and histone variants, the role of epigenetics in development and response to environmental signals, natural variation and ecology, as well as applications for epigenetics in crop improvement. Discussing areas ranging from the complex regulation of stress and heterosis to the precise mechanisms of DNA and histone modifications, it presents breakthroughs in our understanding of complex phenotypic phenomena.
1. Conservation, Divergence and Abundance of MiRNAs and Their Effect in Plants / Flor de Fatima Rosas-Cardenas, and Stefan de Folter
2. The Role of MiRNAs in Auxin Signaling and Regulation During Plant Development / Clelia De-la-Pena, Geovanny I. Nic-Can, Johny Avilez-Montalvo, Jose E. Cetz-Chel and Victor M. Loyola-Vargas
3. Growing Diversity of Plant MicroRNAs and MIR-Derived Small RNAs / Mariyana Gozmanova, Vesselin Baev, Elena Apostolova, Gaurav Sablok, and GalinaYahubyan
4. An Evolutionary View of the Biogenesis and Function of Rice Small RNAs / Tian Tang, Ming Wen, Pei Lin, and Yushuai Wang
5. Small RNAs: Master regulators of epigenetic silencing in plants / Rajeev Kumar Sarma, Safia, Ramalingam Sathishkumar
6. Small RNA biogenesis and degradation in plants / Qiming Yu, Yaling Li, Mu Li, and Bin Yu
7. Plant Epigenetics: Non-Coding RNAs as Emerging Regulators / Juan Sebastian Ramirez-Prado, Federico Ariel, Moussa Benhamed, and Martin Crespi
8. Genome-Wide Function Analysis of LincRNAs as MiRNA Targets or Decoys in Plant / Guanglin Li, Zhiqiang Hao, Chunyan Fan, and Xianmiao Wu
9. Plant Noncoding RNAs and the New Paradigms / Rodrigo Siqueira Reis and Jules Deforges
10. Epigenetic Regulation by Non-Coding RNAs in Plant Development / Zhang Yu-Chan and Chen Yue-Qin
11. RNAi Suppressors: Biology and Mechanisms / Neeti Sanan-Mishra, Supriya Chakraborty, Dinesh Gupta, Sunil Kumar Mukherjee
12. Analysis of Nucleic Acids Methylation in Plants / Bi-Feng Yuan
13. DNA Methylation in Plants by MicroRNAs / Sachin Teotia, Deepali Singh, and Guiliang Tang
14. DNA Methylation in Plants and its Implications in Development, Hybrid Vigor and Evolution / Annalisa Varriale
15. Dynamic DNA Methylation Patterns in Stress Response / Luigi Viggiano and Maria Concetta de Pinto
16. Locus-specific DNA methylation analysis and applications to plants / Alexandre How-Kit, Emeline Teyssier, Jean-Francois Deleuze, and Philippe Gallusci
17. Epigenetics in Plant Reproductive Development: An Overview from Flowers to Seeds / Antoine L.F. Gady, Cristiane S. Alves, Fabio T.S. Nogueira
18. Epigenetic Regulation of Phase Transitions in Arabidopsis thaliana / Ines Trindade, Daniel Schubert, and Valerie Gaudin
19. Epigenetics in Plant-Pathogen Interactions / Giorgio Gambino, and Vitantonio Pantaleo
20. Epigenetic Reprogramming During Plant Reproduction / Jer-Young Lin, and Tzung-Fu Hsieh
21. Rice Epigenomics: how does Epigenetic Manipulation of Crops Contribute to Agriculture? / Yoshiki Habu
22. Epigenetic Characterization of Satellite DNA in Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris) / Falk Zakrzewski, and Thomas Schmidt
23. Universal and Lineage-specific Properties of Linker Histones and SWI/SNF-chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Plants / Andrzej Jerzmanowski, and Rafal Archacki
24. Abiotic Stress Induced Epigenetic Modifications in Plants: How Much do we Know? / Sonali Bej, and Jolly Basak
25. Apple Latent Spherical Virus (ALSV) Vector as a Tool for Reverse Genetic Studies and Non-Transgenic Breeding of a Variety of Crops / Ichiro Kasajima, Makoto Ito, Noriko Yamagishi, Nobuyuki Yoshikawa