Dynamics and function of DNA methylation in plants

H Zhang, Z Lang, JK Zhu - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic modification that is important for gene regulation
and genome stability. Aberrant patterns of DNA methylation can lead to plant developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics for crop improvement in times of global change

I Kakoulidou, EV Avramidou, M Baránek… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

Loss of Karma transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm

M Ong-Abdullah, JM Ordway, N Jiang, SE Ooi, SY Kok… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Somaclonal variation arises in plants and animals when differentiated somatic cells are
induced into a pluripotent state, but the resulting clones differ from each other and from their …

[HTML][HTML] Stress induced gene expression drives transient DNA methylation changes at adjacent repetitive elements

D Secco, C Wang, H Shou, MD Schultz, S Chiarenza… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Cytosine DNA methylation (mC) is a genome modification that can regulate the expression
of coding and non-coding genetic elements. However, little is known about the involvement …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation dynamics during early plant life

D Bouyer, A Kramdi, M Kassam, M Heese, A Schnittger… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Cytosine methylation is crucial for gene regulation and silencing of
transposable elements in mammals and plants. While this epigenetic mark is extensively …

[HTML][HTML] Plant responses to abiotic stress: the chromatin context of transcriptional regulation

MA Asensi-Fabado, A Amtmann, G Perrella - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability of plants to cope with abiotic environmental stresses such as drought, salinity,
heat, cold or flooding relies on flexible mechanisms for re-programming gene expression …

Sexual-lineage-specific DNA methylation regulates meiosis in Arabidopsis

J Walker, H Gao, J Zhang, B Aldridge, M Vickers… - Nature Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
DNA methylation regulates eukaryotic gene expression and is extensively reprogrammed
during animal development. However, whether developmental methylation reprogramming …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation during plant development and the capacity for epigenetic memory

EA Hemenway, M Gehring - Annual review of plant biology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The establishment, maintenance, and removal of epigenetic modifications provide an
additional layer of regulation, beyond genetically encoded factors, by which plants can …

ARGONAUTE 6 bridges transposable element m RNA‐derived si RNA s to the establishment of DNA methylation

AD McCue, K Panda, S Nuthikattu, SG Choudury… - The EMBO …, 2015 - embopress.org
Transposable elements (TE s) generate mutations and chromosomal instability when active.
To repress TE activity, eukaryotic cells evolved mechanisms to both degrade TE mRNA s …

Unique cell-type-specific patterns of DNA methylation in the root meristem

T Kawakatsu, T Stuart, M Valdes, N Breakfield… - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification that differs between plant organs and tissues,
but the extent of variation between cell types is not known. Here, we report single-base …