Maren Heese

TL;DR: The high-quality genome sequence will help Brachypodium reach its potential as an important model system for developing new energy and food crops and establishes a template for analysis of the large genomes of economically important pooid grasses such as wheat.

TL;DR: The results show that fie mutant seeds exhibit enhanced dormancy and germination defects, indicating a deficiency in terminating the embryonic phase, and demonstrate that PRC2-mediated regulation represents a robust system controlling developmental phase transitions, not only from vegetative phase to flowering but also especially from embryonic phase to the seedling stage.

TL;DR: The findings indicate the absence of extensive resetting of DNA methylation patterns during early plant life and point instead to an important role of RdDM in reinforcingDNA methylation of transposable element sequences in every cell of the mature embryo.

TL;DR: While the major mitotic cell‐cycle activity is blocked after DNA damage, CDKB1‐CYCB1 complexes are specifically activated to mediate HR.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that AGL36 parent-of-origin–dependent expression is controlled by the activity of METHYLTRANSFERASE1 (MET1) maintenance DNA methyltransferase and DEMETER (DME) DNA glycosylase, revealing a new type of dual epigenetic regulation in seeds.