Gene body methylation (gbM) is a widely conserved epigenetic feature of plant genomes.
Efforts to delineate the mechanisms by which gbM contributes to transcriptional regulation …

SUMMARY F1 hybrids derived from a cross between two inbred parental lines often display
widespread changes in DNA methylation patterns relative to their parents. To which extent …

Molecular clocks are the basis for dating the divergence between lineages over
macroevolutionary timescales (~ 105 to 108 years). However, classical DNA-based clocks …

Mistakes in the maintenance of CG methylation are a source of heritable epimutations in
plants. Multigenerational surveys indicate that the rate of these stochastic events varies …

Histone H3 lysine-9 methylation (H3K9me) is a hallmark of the condensed and
transcriptionally silent heterochromatin. It remains unclear how H3K9me controls …

Cytosine is methylated in both CpG and non-CpG contexts (mCG and mCH, respectively) in
plant genomes. Although mCG and mCH are almost independent in regard to their …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed that the striking natural variation
for DNA CHH-methylation (mCHH; H is A, T, or C) of transposons has oligogenic …

Inbreeding is the crossing of closely related individuals in nature or a plantation or self-
pollinating plants, which produces plants with high homozygosity. This process can reduce …

Dimethylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9me2), a crucial modification for heterochromatin
formation and transcriptional silencing, is essential for proper meiotic prophase progression …

The epigenome is the suite of interacting chemical marks and molecules that helps to shape
patterns of development, phenotypic plasticity and gene regulation, in part due to its …