Cotranscriptional splicing is required in the cold to produce isoforms that repress .

Plants use seasonal cold to time the transition to reproductive development. Short- and long-term cold exposure is registered via parallel transcriptional shutdown and Polycomb-dependent epigenetic silencing of the major flowering repressor locus (). The cold-induced antisense transcripts () determine the dynamics of transcriptional shutdown, but the thermosensory mechanisms are still unresolved.

The Histone Variant H3.3 Is Required for Plant Growth and Fertility in .

Histones are the core components of the eukaryote chromosome, and have been implicated in transcriptional gene regulation. There are three major isoforms of histone H3 in . Studies have shown that the H3.

Relative contribution of photorespiration and antioxidative mechanisms in Caragana korshinskii under drought conditions across the Loess Plateau.

The drought-tolerant plant Caragana korshinskii Kom. was used to investigate the relative contribution of photorespiration and antioxidative mechanisms to water-stress adaptations across the Loess Plateau. The samples were collected from Shenmu, Yulin and Dongsheng along with the reduction of rainfall.