Shihan Yan

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 results suggest that cold-mediated unsilencing of heterochromatic tandem-repeated sequences, accompanied with epigenetic regulation, might play an important role in the adaptation of plants to cold stimuli.

TL;DR: Heat stress persistently induced PCD in maize seedling leaves which was characterized by chromatin DNA laddering and DNA strand breaks detected by a terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) test.

TL;DR: Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis reveals that dynamic histone acetylation change in the promoter region of cell cycle genes is involved in the control of gene expression in response to external stress, resulting in prolonged cell cycle duration and an inhibitory effect on growth and development in maize seedlings.