title: The roles of histone acetylation in seed performance and plant development.
abstract: Histone acetylation regulates gene transcription by chromatin modifications and plays a crucial role in the plant development and response to environment cues. The homeostasis of histone acetylation is controlled by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs) in different plant tissues and development stages. The vigorous knowledge of the function and co-factors about HATs (e.g. GCN5) and HDACs (e.g. HDA19, HDA6) has been obtained from model plant Arabidopsis. However, understanding individual role of other HATs and HDACs require more work, especially in the major food crops such as rice, maize and wheat. Many co-regulators have been recently identified to function as a component of HAT or HDAC complex in some specific developmental processes. The described findings show a distinctive and interesting epigenetic regulation network composed of HATs, HDACs and co-regulators playing crucial roles in the seed performance, flowering time, plant morphogenesis, plant response to stresses etc. In this review, we summarized the recent progresses and suggested the perspective of histone acetylation research, which might provide us a new window to understand the epigenetic code of plant development and to improve the crop production and quality.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. Electronic address: wangzhi@ibcas.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China.
authors.forename: Fengying
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. Electronic address: yongxiu@ibcas.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Yongxiu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000107:Acetylation; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism*; D012275:Oryza / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D063245:Plant Development / Q000502:physiology; D012639:Seeds / Q000378:metabolism*; D014908:Triticum / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D003313:Zea mays / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D006657:Histones
keywords: Chromatin modification; Histone acetylation; Plant development; Seed performance