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Research Group for Plant Tolerance to Environmental Stress
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The sessility of plant needs to evolve sophisticated mechanisms for responding in an integrated and balanced manner to environmental cues by precisely regulating transcription output. The core enzyme of transcription machinery that transcribe mRNA from protein-encoding genes is RNA polymerase II (Pol II). By interacting with accessory factors, the transcribing behaviors of Pol II were dynamically regulated in a series of distinct steps: initiation, elongation, and termination. Emerging evidence points to the pausing of Pol II during early elongation as a widespread regulatory mechanism in higher eukaryotes. Whether and how the transition from initiation to elongation is regulated in plant? How the precise modulation of transcription is maintained with the help of various transcription factors under the changing environment? Our research will try to address those questions from the following angles:
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Chen Chen
Professor/PI
Wang Changhu
Associate Professor
Yang weiyuan
Assistant Professor
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