Cytosine DNA methylation (5mC) is a widespread base modification in eukaryotic genomes
with critical roles in transcriptional regulation. In recent years, our understanding of 5mC has …

Despite substantial progress in understanding the genetic basis for differences in
morphology, physiology, and behavior, many phenotypes of interest are difficult to study with …

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 …

Deserts exert strong selection pressures on plants, but the underlying genomic drivers of
ecological adaptation and subsequent speciation remain largely unknown. Here, we …

Angiosperms have become the dominant terrestrial plant group by diversifying for~ 145
million years into a broad range of environments. During the course of evolution, numerous …

Eukaryotic genes are interrupted by introns that are removed from transcribed RNAs by
splicing. Patterns of splicing complexity differ between species, but it is unclear how these …

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 …

Plant leaves display considerable variation in shape. Here, we introduce key aspects of leaf
development, focusing on the morphogenetic basis of leaf shape diversity. We discuss the …

Dissecting the relationship between gene function and substitution rates is key to
understanding genome-wide patterns of molecular evolution. Biochemical pathways provide …

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 …