Cytosine DNA methylation in vertebrates is widespread, but methylation in plants is found
almost exclusively at transposable elements and repetitive DNA [1]. Within regions of …

Cytosine methylation is a com-mon DNA modification found in most eukaryotic organisms
including plants, animals, and fungi (1, 2). The addition of a methyl group to cytosine …

DNA methylation occurs in CG and non-CG sequence contexts. Non-CG methylation is
abundant in plants and is mediated by CHROMOMETHYLASE (CMT) and DOMAINS …

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) …

The primary sequence of the genome is broadly constant and superimposed upon that
constancy is the postreplicative modification of a small number of cytosine residues to 5 …

Many plant, animal, and fungal genomes contain cytosine DNA methylation in asymmetric
sequence contexts (CpHpH, H= A, T, C). Although the enzymes responsible for this …

Cytosine DNA methylation is prevalent throughout eukaryotes and prokaryotes. While most
commonly thought of as being localized to dinucleotide CpG sites, non-CG sites can also be …

Cytosine methylation, a common form of DNA modification that antagonizes transcription, is
found at transposons and repeats in vertebrates, plants and fungi. Here we have mapped …

In plants, CG DNA methylation is prevalent in the transcribed regions of many constitutively
expressed genes (gene body methylation; gbM), but the origin and function of gbM remain …

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