摘要Environmental stress from climate change and agricultural activity threatens global plant bio-diversity as well as crop yield and quality. As sessile organisms, plants must maintain the in-tegrity of their genomes and adjust gene ex-pression to adapt to various environmental changes. In eukaryotes, nucleosomes are the basic unit of chromatin around which genomic DNA is packaged by condensation. To enable dynamic access to packaged DNA, eukaryotes have evolved Snf2 (sucrose nonfermenting 2) family proteins as chromatin remodeling factors (CHRs) that modulate the position of nucleosomes on chromatin. During plant stress responses, CHRs are recruited to specific genomic loci, where they regulate the distribution or composi-tion of nucleosomes, which in turn alters the ac-cessibility of these loci to general transcription or DNA damage repair machinery. Moreover, CHRs interplay with other epigenetic mechanisms, in-cluding DNA methylation, histone modifications, and deposition of histone variants. CHRs are also involved in RNA processing at the post-transcriptional level. In this review, we discuss major advances in our understanding of the mechanisms by which CHRs function during plants' response to environmental stress.