title: Chromatin and epigenetics in all their states: Meeting report of the first conference on Epigenetic and Chromatin Regulation of Plant Traits - January 14 - 15, 2016 - Strasbourg, France.
abstract: In January 2016, the first Epigenetic and Chromatin Regulation of Plant Traits conference was held in Strasbourg, France. An all-star lineup of speakers, a packed audience of 130 participants from over 20 countries, and a friendly scientific atmosphere contributed to make this conference a meeting to remember. In this article we summarize some of the new insights into chromatin, epigenetics, and epigenomics research and highlight nascent ideas and emerging concepts in this exciting area of research.
authors.affiliation: a Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences , University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Till
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bey
authors.affiliation: b Plant Research International , Bioscience , Wageningen , The Netherlands.|c Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Wageningen University , Wageningen , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Suraj
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jamge
authors.affiliation: d Crop Science Division , Bayer CropScience SA-NV , Zwijnaarde , Belgium.
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Klemme
authors.affiliation: e Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (CBGP) , Instituto Nacional de Investigación y TecnologíaAgraria y Alimentaria (INIA)-Universidad Politécnica de Madrid , Madrid , Spain.
authors.forename: Dorota Natalia
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Komar
authors.affiliation: f VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology , Ghent , Belgium.|g Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics , Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Le Gall
authors.affiliation: h Institute for Biology, Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin , Germany.
authors.forename: Pawel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mikulski
authors.affiliation: f VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology , Ghent , Belgium.|g Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics , Ghent University , Ghent , Belgium.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: i Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research , Cologne , Germany.
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zicola
authors.affiliation: j Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes (IBMP) du CNRS, Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg Cedex , France.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berr
mesh_terms: D042002:Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly; D044127:Epigenesis, Genetic; D018745:Genome, Plant; D019655:Quantitative Trait, Heritable
keywords: Chromatin reprogramming; development; enhancers; epigenetics and heritability; nuclear organization; plants