Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (7): 182-189.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2019-0880

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Research Progress in Histone Modification of Plant Involved in the Regulation of Gene Expression Response to Abiotic Stress

ZHAO Lin1, WANG Pu2, WU Qi1, SONG Rui-rui1, LAN Tao1, YUN Zhen-yu1   

  1. 1. Institute of Agriculture and Food Standardization,China National institute of Standardization,Beijing 100191;
    2. College of Horticulture and Forestry Science,Huazhong Agriculture University,Wuhan 430070
  • Received:2019-09-20 Online:2020-07-26 Published:2020-07-28

Abstract: It is unavoidable to suffer from adverse environment in the process of plant growth. Hence they have evolved a flexible mechanism for reprogramming gene expression to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought,high salinity,cold,heat or submergence. Recently,along with the intensive studies of epigenetics,histone modification has demonstrated to play a crucial role under abiotic stress in plant. The properties of histone modification after translation can be altered by environmental stress,which initiates the expressions of abiotic stress-responsive genes,or act as a downstream factor to participant in the transcriptional regulation. In this review,we summarize the existing information about histone modification involved in the transcriptional regulation of abiotic stress-responsive genes,which is expected to provide a reference for the research on abiotic stress tolerance of plants.

Key words: histone modification, abiotic stress, stress response, transcriptional regulation of genes