Yuehui He

The paper shows that cell cycle progression in Arabidopsis stem cells maintains pluripotency by resetting epigenetic marks and silencing fate-determining genes through PRC2 recruitment.

The paper identifies an auto-repression mechanism that prevents excessive FT production and precocious flowering in plants by showing FT-FD feedback down-regulation of FT expression.

The paper identifies a spatiotemporal regulatory cascade involving AP1, CCA1, and TOC1 that controls stem development in Arabidopsis and shows its conservation in wheat and rice.

The paper identifies AtING1 and AtING2 as readers of H3K4me2/me3 that recruit PRC2 to repress FT expression during long days, preventing premature flowering.