The development of genetic tools to alter DNA methylation has led to a deeper
understanding of the importance of DNA modification in the life strategies of different …

Recent research has demonstrated that DNA methylation plays an integral role in regulating
the timing of flowering and in endosperm development. The identification of key genes …

Cytosine bases of the nuclear genome in higher plants are often extensively methylated.
Cytosine methylation has been implicated in the silencing of both transposable elements …

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Cytosine DNA methylation is a stable epigenetic mark that is crucial for diverse biological
processes, including gene and transposon silencing, imprinting and X chromosome …

Plants contain three distinct DNA methyltransferase types that are responsible for the
establishment and maintenance of cytosine methylation patterns at heterochromatic and …

Plant DNA methylation is its own language, interpreted by the cell to maintain silencing of
transposons, facilitate chromatin structure, and to ensure proper expression of some genes …

Genes constitute only a small portion of the total genome and precisely controlling their
expression represents a substantial problem for their regulation. Furthermore, non-coding …

Understanding how developmental and functional complexity of organisms evolves is a
longstanding challenge in biology. Genetic mutation has long been thought to be the cause …

DNA methylation is a type of epigenetic marking that strongly influences chromatin structure
and gene expression in plants and mammals. Over the past decade, DNA methylation has …