Brassica rapa includes some of the most important vegetables worldwide as well as oilseed
crops. The complete annotated genome sequence confirmed its paleohexaploid origins and …

Background Brassica oleracea is a valuable vegetable species that has contributed to
human health and nutrition for hundreds of years and comprises multiple distinct cultivar …

DNA methylation, an important epigenetic modification, serves as a key function in the
polyploidization of numerous crops. In this study, early generations of resynthesized …

Patterns and level of cytosine methylation vary widely among plant species and are
associated with genome size as well as the proportion of transposons and other repetitive …

Polyploidization, both ancient and recent, is frequent among plants. A “two-step theory" was
proposed to explain the meso-triplication of the Brassica “A" genome: Brassica rapa. By …

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are RNA fragments that generally do not code for a
protein but are involved in epigenetic gene regulation. In this study, lncRNAs of Brassica …

Gene duplication is a source of evolutionary novelty. DNA methylation may play a role in the
evolution of duplicate genes (paralogs) through its association with gene expression. While …

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 …

The genus Brassica is an important resource for major agricultural products such as oils,
vegetable and fodder. The Brassiceae tribe-specific whole-genome triplication that …

The complexity of the epigenome landscape and transcriptional regulation is significantly
increased during plant polyploidization, which drives genome evolution and contributes to …