Gene body methylation (gbM) is a widely conserved epigenetic feature of plant genomes.
Efforts to delineate the mechanisms by which gbM contributes to transcriptional regulation …

Stochastic gains and losses of DNA methylation at CG dinucleotides are a frequent
occurrence in plants. These spontaneous 'epimutations' occur at a rate that is 100 000 times …

Molecular clocks are the basis for dating the divergence between lineages over
macroevolutionary timescales (~ 105 to 108 years). However, classical DNA-based clocks …

Mistakes in the maintenance of CG methylation are a source of heritable epimutations in
plants. Multigenerational surveys indicate that the rate of these stochastic events varies …

DNA methylation is a ubiquitous chromatin feature, present in 25% of cytosines in the maize
genome, but variation and evolution of the methylation landscape during maize …

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

Epialleles are meiotically heritable variations in expression states that are independent from
changes in DNA sequence. Although they are common in plant genomes, their molecular …

Duckweeds are among the fastest reproducing plants, able to clonally divide at exponential
rates. However, the genetic and epigenetic impact of clonality on plant genomes is poorly …

Many modes and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance have been elucidated in
eukaryotes. Most of them are relatively short-term, generally not exceeding one or a few …

Little information is known about DNA methylation variation in shaping environment‐specific
drought resistance and resilience for tree adaptation. In this study, we leveraged RNA …