Publications

Gu, X., Jiang, D., Yang, W., Jacob, Y., Michaels S.D. and He, Y. 2011. Arabidopsis Homologs of Retinoblastoma-Associated Protein 46/48 Associate with a Histone Deacetylase to Act Redundantly in Chromatin Silencing. PLoS Genetics 7: e1002366.

Jiang, D., Kong, N.C., Gu, X., Li, Z. and He, Y. 2011. Arabidopsis COMPASS-Like Complexes Mediate Histone H3 Lysine-4 Trimethylation to Control Floral Transition and Plant Development. PLoS Genetics, 7: e1001330.

Yang, W., Jiang, D., Jiang, J. and He, Y. 2010. A plant-specific histone H3 lysine 4 demethylase represses the floral transition in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal, 62: 663 - 673.

Jiang, D., Gu, X. and He, Y. 2009. Establishment of the Winter-Annual Growth Habit via FRIGIDA-Mediated Histone Methylation at FLOWERING LOCUS C in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, 21: 1733–1746.

He, Y. 2009. Control of the Transition to Flowering by Chromatin Modifications. Molecular Plant, 2: 554–564.

Gu, X., Jiang, D., Wang, Y., Bachmair, A. and He, Y. 2009. Repression of the floral transition via histone H2B monoubiquitination. The Plant Journal, 57: 522–533.

Jiang, D., Wang, Y., Wang, Y. and He, Y. 2008. Repression of FLOWERING LOCUS C and FLOWERING LOCUS T by the Arabidopsis Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Components. PLoS ONE, 3: e3404.

Jiang, D., Yang, W., He, Y. (correspond. author) and Amasino, R.M. 2007. Arabidopsis Relatives of the Human Lysine–Specific Demethylase1 Repress the Expression of FWA and FLOWERING LOCUS C C and Thus Promote the Floral Transition. The Plant Cell, 19: 2975-2987.

Reeves P., He, Y., Schmitz, R., Amasino, R., Panella, L. and Richards, C. 2007. Evolutionary conservation of the FLOWERING LOCUS C-mediated vernalization response: evidence from the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). Genetics. 176:295-307.

He, Y., Michaels, S. and Amasino, R. 2003. Regulation of flowering time by histone acetylation in Arabidopsis. Science, 302:1751-1754.

He, Y. ,Doyle, M. and Amasino, R. 2004. PAF1 complex-mediated histone methylation of FLOWERING LOCUS C chromatin is required for the vernalization-responsive, winter-annual habit in Arabidopsis. Genes and Development, 18: 2774-2784 .

Sung, S., He, Y. (co-first author), Eshoo, T., Tamada, Y., Johnson, L., Nakahigashi, K., Goto, K., Jacobsen, S., and Amasino, R. 2006. Epigenetic maintenance of the vernalized state in Arabidopsis thaliana requires LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1. Nature Genetics, 38: 706-710.

He, Y. and Amasino, R. 2005. Role of chromatin modification in flowering-time control. Trends in Plant Science, 10: 30-35.

Searle, I., He, Y., Turck, F., Vincent, C., Fornara, F., Krober, S., Amasino, R. and Coupland, G. 2006. The transcription factor FLC confers a flowering response to vernalization by repressing meristem competence and systemic signaling in Arabidopsis. Genes and Development, 20: 898-912.

Kim, S., He, Y., Jacob, Y., Noh, Y., Michaels, Y., and Amasino , R. 2005. Establishment of the vernalization-responsive, winter-annual habit in Arabidopsis requires a putative histone H3 methyl transferase. Plant Cell, 17 :3301-3310.

Liu, J., He, Y., Amasino, R. and Chen, X. 2004. siRNAs targeting an intronic transposon in the regulation of natural flowering behavior in Arabidopsis. Genes and Development , 18: 2873-2878.

Michaels, S., He, Y., Scortecci, K. and Amasino, R. 2003. Attenuation of FLOWERING LOCUS C activity as a mechanism for the evolution of summer-annual flowering behavior in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA, 100: 10102-10107.

Xie, M., He, Y.(co-first author) and Gan, S. 2001. Bidirectionalization of polar promoters in plants. Nature Biotechnology, 19: 677-679.