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QingLattice, a vascular-mobile lncRNA, reprograms iron-deficiency responses in sink roots by coordinating MdDML1 recruitment and MdIDN2 chromatin-looping changes to activate MdNRAMP3.
- Why it matters: Mobile lncRNAs can signal systemic stress adaptation, but how they reshape chromatin architecture and epigenetic states at sink-tissue loci is not well defined.
- What they did: In iron (Fe) deficiency, QingLattice moves from shoot to root, binds the MdNRAMP3 locus to recruit MdDML1 for active DNA demethylation, and also alters chromatin looping at MdIDN2 to repress RdDM-mediated methylation suppression on MdNRAMP3.
- The result: Together, these pathways reduce MdNRAMP3 methylation and ensure robust expression, enhancing vacuolar Fe export and systemic Fe-deficiency tolerance; grafting shows mobility is necessary and sufficient for the adaptive phenotypes.
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