DNA methylation dynamics during stress response in woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

ME López, D Roquis, C Becker, B Denoyes… - Horticulture …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Environmental stresses can result in a wide range of physiological and molecular responses
in plants. These responses can also impact epigenetic information in genomes, especially at …

Genetic and environmental drivers of large-scale epigenetic variation in Thlaspi arvense

D Galanti, D Ramos-Cruz, A Nunn… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Natural plant populations often harbour substantial heritable variation in DNA methylation.
However, a thorough understanding of the genetic and environmental drivers of this …

DNA methylation in the wild: epigenetic transgenerational inheritance can mediate adaptation in clones of wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

I Sammarco, B Díez Rodríguez, D Galanti… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the accelerating climate change, it is crucial to understand how plants adapt to rapid
environmental changes. Such adaptation may be mediated by epigenetic mechanisms like …

MethylScore, a pipeline for accurate and context-aware identification of differentially methylated regions from population-scale plant whole-genome bisulfite …

P Hüther, J Hagmann, A Nunn, I Kakoulidou… - Quantitative Plant …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS) is the standard method for profiling DNA
methylation at single-nucleotide resolution. Different tools have been developed to extract …

Manipulating base quality scores enables variant calling from bisulfite sequencing alignments using conventional Bayesian approaches

A Nunn, C Otto, M Fasold, PF Stadler, D Langenberger - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Calling germline SNP variants from bisulfite-converted sequencing data poses
a challenge for conventional software, which have no inherent capability to dissociate true …

High-resolution methylome analysis uncovers stress-responsive genomic hotspots and drought-sensitive TE superfamilies in the clonal Lombardy poplar

C Peña-Ponton, B Diez-Rodriguez… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
DNA methylation is environment-sensitive and can mediate stress responses. In long-lived
trees, changing environments might cumulatively shape the methylome landscape over their …

Herbivory induced methylation changes in the Lombardy poplar: A comparison of results obtained by epiGBS and WGBS

AN Troyee, C Peña-Ponton, M Medrano… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
DNA cytosine methylation is an epigenetic mechanism involved in regulation of plant
responses to biotic and abiotic stress and its ability to change can vary with the sequence …

Epigenetic variation in the Lombardy poplar along climatic gradients is independent of genetic structure and persists across clonal reproduction

BD Rodríguez, D Galanti, A Nunn, C Peña-Ponton… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Environmental changes can trigger phenotypic variation in plants through epigenetic
mechanisms, but strong genetic influences make it difficult to isolate and study epigenetic …

BSXplorer: analytical framework for exploratory analysis of BS-seq data

K Yuditskiy, I Bezdvornykh, A Kazantseva, A Kanapin… - BMC …, 2024 - Springer
Background Bisulfite sequencing detects and quantifies DNA methylation patterns,
contributing to our understanding of gene expression regulation, genome stability …

High-resolution methylome analysis in the clonal Populus nigra cv. 'Italica' reveals environmentally sensitive hotspots and drought-responsive TE superfamilies

C Peña-Ponton, B Diez-Rodriguez, P Perez-Bello… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT/SUMMARY DNA methylation is environment-sensitive and can mediate plant
stress responses. In long-lived trees, changing environments might cumulatively shape the …