Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Primed histone demethylation regulates shoot regenerative competency

  • Hiroya Ishihara,
  • Kaoru Sugimoto,
  • Paul T. Tarr,
  • Haruka Temman,
  • Satoshi Kadokura,
  • Yayoi Inui,
  • Takuya Sakamoto,
  • Taku Sasaki,
  • Mitsuhiro Aida,
  • Takamasa Suzuki,
  • Soichi Inagaki,
  • Kengo Morohashi,
  • Motoaki Seki,
  • Tetsuji Kakutani,
  • Elliot M. Meyerowitz,
  • Sachihiro Matsunaga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09386-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Plant regeneration can occur via formation of a mass of pluripotent cells known as callus. Here, Ishihara et al. show that acquisition of regenerative capacity of callus-forming cells requires a lysine-specific demethylase that removes H3K4me2 to prime gene expression in response to regenerative cues.