The expanding scope and scale of next generation sequencing experiments in ecological
plant epigenetics brings new challenges for computational analysis. Existing tools built for …

Reduced representation bisulfite sequencing is an emerging methodology for evolutionary
and ecological genomics and epigenomics research because it provides a cost-effective …

Bisulfite sequencing is a widely used technique for determining DNA methylation and its
relationship with epigenetics, genetics, and environmental parameters. Various techniques …

Cytosine methylation as a reversible chromatin mark has been investigated extensively for
its influence on gene silencing and the regulation of its dynamic association–disassociation …

DNA methylation is involved in many different biological processes in the development and
well-being of crop plants such as transposon activation, heterosis, environment-dependent …

DNA methylation plays an important role in many biological processes. The mechanisms
underlying the establishment and maintenance of DNA methylation are well understood …

Studies of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis have rapidly advanced from the analysis of a
single reference accession to investigations of large populations. The goal of emerging …

Epigenetic mechanisms represent a possible mechanism for achieving a rapid response of
long‐lived trees to changing environmental conditions. However, our knowledge on plant …

Cytosine methylation is an important base modification that is inherited across mitotic and
meiotic cell divisions in plant genomes. Heritable methylation variants can contribute to …

Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the standard method for profiling DNA
methylation at single-nucleotide resolution. Different tools have been developed to extract …