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My latest story looks at how research from the 1960s has inspired scientists like UC Riverside's Hailing Jin to design tomatoes that release exRNA as a fungicide. She's now making crop sprays that contain silencing RNA. Have a read in this Nature Outlook: nature.com/articles/d4158…

CRISPR-CAS mediated transcriptional control and epi-mutagenesis Jason Gardiner Basudev Ghoshal Ming Wang Steve Jacobsen #PlantSci academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…

We are looking for a postdoc to join a team creating CRISPR-based tools for controlling gene expression by targeting different types of DNA methylation related and non DNA methylation related epigenetic modifications.

Recognition of pathogen-derived sphingolipids in Arabidopsis science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Genome editing in plants using the compact editor Cas{Phi} biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

MORC proteins regulate transcription factor binding by mediating chromatin compaction in active chromatin regions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

A gene silencing screen uncovers diverse tools for targeted gene repression in Arabidopsis biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

A gene silencing screen uncovers diverse tools for targeted gene repression in Arabidopsis | Nat Plants nature.com/articles/s4147…

New OA Article: "A gene silencing screen uncovers diverse tools for targeted gene repression in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/c63zI Identification of 14 proteins that can repress gene expression via diverse epigenetic pathways: DNA methylation, histone modifications, etc.

Cool epigenome editing screen from Steve Jacobsen. They found the first protein I ever published on: JMJ14 (K4 demethylase). JMJ14 leads to silencing of the target, but no change in DNAme (or K27me3). We saw in the jmj14 mutant there was a DNAme defect 🤔 nature.com/articles/s4147…

Now with a Research Briefing: "Targeted gene silencing by diverse epigenetic pathways" rdcu.be/c7ukh

Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free plant germline editing biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_plants

Excited to share our work published in Nature Plants today rdcu.be/d9rPo Histone H3 lysine 4 methylation recruits DNAdemethylases to enforce gene expression inArabidopsis. Thank you Steve Steve Jacobsen, Yan and all the co-authors for the support! #Epigenetics

Why is it that gene promoters are so good at avoiding DNA methylation? Work from Ming Wang, Yan He et al., shows that H3K4me3, enriched at promoters, acts as an anti-DNA methylation mark by recruiting DNA demethylase enzymes! Nice work guys! rdcu.be/d9rPo

New OA Article: "Histone H3 lysine 4 methylation recruits DNA demethylases to enforce gene expression in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/eaNjS targeting H3K4me3 via the H3K4 methyltransferase SDG2 activates gene expression & removes DNA methylation by recruiting DNA demethylases.

Congratulations, mary droser and Hailing Jin of UC Riverside on being elected National Academy of Sciences members! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-… UC Riverside CNAS

Ming Wang & Hailing Jin spotlight spray-induced gene silencing: a powerful innovative strategy for crop protection bit.ly/2gZMDOe