Reduced DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana results in abnormal plant development.

EJ Finnegan, WJ Peacock… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
… with decreased DNA methylation (ddm) (5) developed morphological … These plants had
roundedrosette leaves, an increased … of plant DNA can lead to abnormal development. Cytosine …

Dynamic DNA methylation in plant growth and development

A Bartels, Q Han, P Nair, L Stacey, H Gaynier… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
… with the embryo has lower DNA methylation in all three methylation contexts, which is the …
The green alga Chamydomonas has an unusual DNA methylation pattern: having relatively …

Dynamics and function of DNA methylation in plants

H Zhang, Z Lang, JK Zhu - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
… processes, and disruption of DNA methylation can lead to developmental abnormalities in …
RNA-directed DNA methylation pathway is crucial for de novo methylation in plants but is less

DNA methylation in plants

EJ Finnegan, RK Genger, WJ Peacock… - … review of plant …, 1998 - annualreviews.org
abnormalities and reduced levels of DNA methylation, implicatingdemethylation as …
cause of abnormal development(46,66,119). Plants with the lowest methylation levels were …

DNA methylation increases throughout Arabidopsis development

L Ruiz-García, MT Cervera, JM Martínez-Zapater - Planta, 2005 - Springer
… that a reduction in DNA methylation in ddm1 samples and 5-azaC treated plants was …
A total of 70% of the differentially methylated polymorphic fragments were only observed in …

Immunohistochemical study of DNA methylation dynamics during plant development

J Zluvova, B Janousek, B Vyskot - Journal of experimental …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… show that a rapid decrease in global DNA methylation during seed … period, a decrease in
DNA methylation was detected in … Arabidopsis thaliana results in abnormal plant development. …

Developmental abnormalities and epimutations associated with DNA hypomethylation mutations.

T Kakutani, JA Jeddeloh, SK Flowers… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
… We first measured global DNA methylation levels in ddml/… of these measurements was too
low to reliably detect small changes … a progressive reduction in cytosine methylation during the …

Targeted disruption of an orthologue of DOMAINS REARRANGED METHYLASE 2, OsDRM2, impairs the growth of rice plants by abnormal DNA methylation

S Moritoh, CH Eun, A Ono, H Asao, Y Okano… - The Plant …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… suggest that DNA methylation catalyzed by OsDRM2 is essential for proper rice development,
… We found that the methylation of 5S rDNA was significantly reduced at CG and CHG sites (…

DNA methylation causes predominant maternal controls of plant embryo growth

J FitzGerald, M Luo, A Chaudhury, F Berger - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
… To ensure that abnormally small seeds or seed lethality were not missing from our bulked …
reduction of MET1 levels in met1-3/+ plants could lead to a reduced level of DNA methylation

DNA Methylation Is Critical for Arabidopsis Embryogenesis and Seed Viability

W Xiao, KD Custard, RC Brown, BE Lemmon… - The Plant …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… Arabidopsis plants with an antisense MET1 transgene, partial-loss-of-function met1 …
revealed that reduced DNA methylation results in abnormal postembryonic plant development (…