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Author: search.filters.author.Sharma, ShambhaviSubject: search.filters.subject.Abiotic stress

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    DNA methylation dynamics in response to abiotic and pathogen stress in plants
    (Springer Nature Publishing AG, 2022) Arora, Heena; Singh, Roshan Kumar; Sharma, Shambhavi; Sharma, Namisha; Panchal, Anurag; Das, Tuhin; Prasad, Ashish; Prasad, Manoj
    DNA methylation is a dynamic epigenetic mechanism that plays a significant role in gene expression and also maintains chromatin stability. The process is conserved in both plants and animals, and crucial for development and stress responses. Differential DNA methylation during adverse environmental conditions or pathogen attack facilitates the selective expression of defense-related genes. Both stress-induced DNA hypomethylation and hypermethylation play beneficial roles in activating the defense response. These DNA marks may be carried to the next generation making the progenies ‘primed’ for abiotic and biotic stress responses. Over the recent years, rapid advancements in the area of high throughput sequencing have enabled the detection of methylation status at genome levels in several plant species. Epigenotyping offers an alternative tool to plant breeders in addition to conventional markers for the selection of the desired offspring. In this review, we briefly discuss the mechanism of DNA methylation, recent understanding of DNA methylation-mediated gene regulation during abiotic and biotic stress responses, and stress memory in plants.
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    Role of ubiquitination enzymes in abiotic environmental interactions with plants
    (Elsevier B.V., 2021) Sharma, Shambhavi; Prasad, Ashish; Sharma, Namisha; Prasad, Manoj
    Ubiquitination, a post-translational modification, plays a crucial role in various aspects of plant development and stress responses. Protein degradation by ubiquitination is well established and ubiquitin is the main underlying component directing the turnover of proteins. Recent reports have also revealed the non-proteolytic roles of ubiquitination in plants. In the past decade, ubiquitination has emerged to be one of the most important players in modulating plant's responses to abiotic stresses, which led to identification of specific E3 ligases and their targets involved in the process. Most of the E3 ligases play regulatory roles by modifying the stability and accumulation of stress responsive regulatory proteins, such as transcription factors, thus, modifying the downstream responses, or by degrading the proteins involved in the downstream cascade itself. In this review, we summarize and highlight the recent advances in the field of ubiquitination-mediated regulation of plant's responses to various abiotic stresses including limited nutrient availability and metal toxicity. The non-proteolytic role of ubiquitination in epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress induced response has also been discussed.