Seed development is an important process of reproductive development and consists of
embryo and endosperm development; both comprise several key processes. To determine …

Background DNA methylation plays important biological roles in plants and animals. To
examine the rice genomic methylation landscape and assess its functional significance, we …

Cytosine methylation silences transposable elements in plants, vertebrates, and fungi but
also regulates gene expression. Plant methylation is catalyzed by three families of enzymes …

Background Epigenetic regulation is well recognized for its importance in gene expression
in organisms. DNA methylation, an important epigenetic mark, has received enormous …

Hundreds of plant species have been domesticated to feed human civilization, while some
crops have undergone de-domestication into agricultural weeds, threatening global food …

We present high-resolution maps of DNA methylation and H3K4 di-and trimethylation of two
entire chromosomes and two fully sequenced centromeres in rice (Oryza sativa) shoots and …

Background Epigenetic modifications play important roles in plant and animal development.
DNA methylation impacts the transposable element (TE) silencing, gene imprinting and …

Seed development is programmed by expression of many genes in plants. Seed maturation
is an important developmental process to soybean seed quality and yield. DNA methylation …

Plant DNA methylation that occurs at CG, CHG, and CHH sites (H= A, C, or T) is a hallmark
of the repression of repetitive sequences and transposable elements (TE s). The rice (Oryza …

DNA methylation affects important developmental processes in both plants and animals. The
process of methylation of cytosines at C‐5 is catalysed by DNA methyltransferases …