DNA methylation contributes to plant acclimation to naturally fluctuating light
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Project description:DNA methylation contributes to plant acclimation to naturally fluctuating light (WGBS)
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Project description:Plants experience dynamic light daily, with light conditions varying on a second-by-second basis. Little is understood about the mechanisms that allow plants to survive such variable conditions. Here, we have exposed Arabidopsis thaliana plants to naturally fluctuating light regimes alongside traditional square light regimes. The response was highly consistent across experiments, leading us to believe there is an epigenetic mechanism involved. We show significant alterations in DNA methylation between fluctuating light acclimated plants, and square light acclimated plants, demonstrating the frequency of fluctuations impacts the plant methylation. This was accompanied by significant changes in gene expression, some of which correlated with altered DNA methylation. Interestingly, several transposable elements which displayed differential methylation were found to be differentially expressed between light regimes. This data suggests DNA methylation may have a role in acclimation to natural light which may directly regulate gene expression and impact transposable element activation.
2025-09-02 | GSE261532 | GEO
Project description:Plants experience dynamic light daily, with light conditions varying on a second-by-second basis. Little is understood about the mechanisms that allow plants to survive such variable conditions. Here, we have exposed Arabidopsis thaliana plants to naturally fluctuating light regimes alongside traditional square light regimes. The response was highly consistent across experiments, leading us to believe there is an epigenetic mechanism involved. We show significant alterations in DNA methylation between fluctuating light acclimated plants, and square light acclimated plants, demonstrating the frequency of fluctuations impacts the plant methylation. This was accompanied by significant changes in gene expression, some of which correlated with altered DNA methylation. Interestingly, several transposable elements which displayed differential methylation were found to be differentially expressed between light regimes. This data suggests DNA methylation may have a role in acclimation to natural light which may directly regulate gene expression and impact transposable element activation.
2025-09-02 | GSE261531 | GEO
Project description:Plants in the natural environment experience continuous dynamic changes in light intensity. Here, we exposed Arabidopsis thaliana plants to naturally fluctuating light regimes alongside traditional square light regimes such as those often found in control environment growth chambers. The physiological response was highly consistent across experiments in sibling plants, indicating the possibility of an epigenetic mechanism, leading us to investigated differences in DNA methylation. Our results identified a large number of changes in DNA methylation patterns between fluctuating light acclimated plants and square light acclimated plants, demonstrating natural fluctuations in light impacts plant epigenetic mechanisms. Most importantly, there are more differences in DNA methylation patterns between different light pattern regimes than between different light intensities. These differences in DNA methylation were accompanied by significant changes in gene expression, some of which correlated with altered DNA methylation. One of these genes, MCCA, was found to significantly impact photosynthetic efficiency when knocked out. Thousands of transposable elements copies were differentially methylated between light regimes. Interestingly, up to 30% of these TEs are linked to nearby differentially expressed genes. Our data suggests DNA methylation plays a role in acclimation to natural light which may directly regulate gene expression and impact transposable element activation.
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Project description:DNA methylation contributes to plant acclimation to naturally fluctuating light (RNA-Seq)
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Project description:Plants are subjected to perpetual fluctuations of light intensity and spectral composition in their natural growth environment, particularly due to movement of clouds and upper canopy leaves. Sudden exposure to intense light is accompanied by absorption of excess light energy, which results in an overload of photosynthetic electron transport chain and generation of reactive oxygen species in and around thylakoid membranes. To cope with this photooxidative stress and to prevent chronic photoinhibition under dynamically changing light intensities, plants have evolved various short- and long-term photoprotective mechanisms. We used quantitative mass spectrometry to investigate long-term acclimation of Arabidopsis thaliana leaf proteome to fluctuating light (FL) which induces photooxidative stress. After three days of FL exposure the proteomes of young and mature leaves were analyzed separately in the morning and at the end of day to examine possible interaction between FL acclimation and leaf development or time of day.
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Project description:Transcriptional Response of Arabidopsis thaliana to Fluctuating Light
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