Lijia Li

TL;DR: It is reported that cold treatment highly induces the up-regulation of HDACs, leading to global deacetylation of histones H3 and H4, and thatHDACs positively regulate the expression of the cold-induced ZmDREB1 gene and that this activation is both gene and site selective.

TL;DR: It is reported that single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) accelerate maize seminal root growth, but display little effect on the primaryroot growth, and gene transcription analysis shows that SWC NTs could increase the expression of seminal root associated genes whereas decrease root hair associated gene expression.

TL;DR: Analysis of cell morphological alterations in maize roots as a consequence of excess salinity in relation to the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of the cell wall related protein genes suggested that the up-regulation of somecell wall related genes mediated cell enlargement to possibly mitigate the salinity-induced ionic toxicity.

TL;DR: The chromosome lesions observed in this study are very similar cytologically to that of fragile sites observed in human chromosomes, and thus it is concluded that the high frequency of chromosome lesions in vitro in Lolium species is the result of the expression of 45S rDNA fragile sites.

TL;DR: ZnO NPs induced cell cycle arrest at the G2/M checkpoint before the viability of human epidermal keratinocytes was reduced, which was associated with epigenetic changes and accompanied by p53-Bax mitochondrial pathway-mediated apoptosis.