Jasmonates and Histone deacetylase 6 activate Arabidopsis genome-wide histone acetylation and methylation during the early acute stress response.

Background: Jasmonates (JAs) mediate trade-off between responses to both biotic and abiotic stress and growth in plants. The Arabidopsis thaliana HISTONE DEACETYLASE 6 is part of the CORONATINE INSENSITIVE1 receptor complex, co-repressing the HDA6/COI1-dependent acetic acid-JA pathway that confers plant drought tolerance. The decrease in HDA6 binding to target DNA mirrors histone H4 acetylation (H4Ac) changes during JA-mediated drought response, and mutations in HDA6 also cause depletion in the constitutive repressive marker H3 lysine 27 trimethylation (H3K27me3).

Erratum: Acetate-mediated novel survival strategy against drought in plants.

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2017.

Acetate-mediated novel survival strategy against drought in plants.

Water deficit caused by global climate changes seriously endangers the survival of organisms and crop productivity, and increases environmental deterioration. Plants' resistance to drought involves global reprogramming of transcription, cellular metabolism, hormone signalling and chromatin modification. However, how these regulatory responses are coordinated via the various pathways, and the underlying mechanisms, are largely unknown.