“…Characterization of the hub1, hub2, hub1hub2 and ubc1ubc2 mutants has revealed that H2Bub1 regulates multiple processes, including cell cycle and plant growth (Fleury et al, 2007;Lolas et al, 2010), seed dormancy (Liu et al, 2007), leaf cuticle formation (M enard et al, 2014), flowering (Cao et al, 2008;Gu et al, 2009;Xu et al, 2009), circadian clock and photomorphogenesis (Bourbousse et al, 2012;Himanen et al, 2012), as well as plant defense (Dhawan et al, 2009;Zou et al, 2014). More recent studies have demonstrated that knockdown of HUB1/HUB2 in tomato also affects plant response to pathogens (Zhang et al, 2015) and loss of HUB1/HUB2 in rice leads to early heading, dwarfism and anther developmental defects (Cao et al, 2015). Impaired deposition of H3K4me3 or H3K36me3 also affects a range of plant growth and developmental processes (for a recent review, see Fletcher, 2017).…”