Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Components of the ribosome biogenesis pathway underlie establishment of telomere length set point in Arabidopsis

  • Liliia R. Abdulkina,
  • Callie Kobayashi,
  • John T. Lovell,
  • Inna B. Chastukhina,
  • Behailu B. Aklilu,
  • Inna A. Agabekian,
  • Ana V. Suescún,
  • Lia R. Valeeva,
  • Chuluuntsetseg Nyamsuren,
  • Galina V. Aglyamova,
  • Margarita R. Sharipova,
  • Dorothy E. Shippen,
  • Thomas E. Juenger,
  • Eugene V. Shakirov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13448-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Major effect loci controlling natural, heritable variation in telomere length are not known. Here, the authors use QTL mapping and transgenic manipulations in Arabidopsis to implicate the rRNA-processing genes NOP2A and RPL5 in telomere length set point regulation in this model species.