DNA methylation has been considered a stable epigenetic mark but may respond to
fluctuating environments. However, it is unclear how they behave in natural environments …

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) …

Methylation of CG dinucleotides (mCGs), which regulates eukaryotic genome functions, is
epigenetically propagated by Dnmt1/MET1 methyltransferases. How mCG is established …

Epigenome modulation potentially provides a mechanism for organisms to adapt, within and
between generations. However, neither the extent to which this occurs, nor the mechanisms …

DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic mark in plants and many animals. How parental
alleles interact in progeny to influence the epigenome is poorly understood. We analyzed …

There has been much excitement about the possibility that exposure to specific
environments can induce an ecological memory in the form of whole-sale, genome-wide …

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

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

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

Cytosine DNA methylation is the addition of a methyl group to the 5′ position of a cytosine,
which plays a crucial role in plant development and gene silencing. Genome-wide profiling …