DNA methylation in plants affects transposon silencing, transcriptional regulation and thus
phenotypic variation. One unanswered question is whether DNA methylation could be …

Highlights•Epigenetic variation in plants is frequently linked to genetic variation.•Single large
effect mutations perturb the epigenetic landscape in trans.•DNA methylation regulates …

Little is known about patterns of genic DNA methylation across the plant kingdom or about
the evolutionary processes that shape them. To characterize gene-body methylation (gbM) …

Natural plant populations often harbour substantial heritable variation in DNA methylation.
However, a thorough understanding of the genetic and environmental drivers of this …

Background DNA cytosine methylation is an epigenetic modification that has been
implicated in many biological processes. However, large-scale epigenomic studies have …

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 extent to which epigenetic variation affects complex traits in natural populations is not
known. We addressed this question using transcriptome and DNA methylation data from a …

DNA methylation, one of the best-studied types of chromatin modification, suppresses the
expression of transposable elements, pseudogenes, repetitive sequences, and individual …

Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …

It has long been known that adaptive evolution can occur through genetic mutations in DNA
sequence, but it is unclear whether adaptive evolution can occur through analogous …