Transgenerational epigenetics is defined in opposition to developmental epigenetics and
implies an absence of resetting of epigenetic states between generations. Unlike mammals …

Sessile plants possess an assembly of signaling pathways that perceive and transmit
environmental signals, ultimately resulting in transcriptional reprogramming. Histone is a key …

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile parasitic sequences that have been repeatedly
coopted during evolution to generate new functions and rewire gene regulatory networks …

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 …

Variation in DNA methylation enables plants to inherit traits independently of changes to
DNA sequence. Here, we have screened an Arabidopsis population of epigenetic …

Cytosine methylation regulates essential genome functions across eukaryotes, but the
fundamental question of whether nucleosomal or naked DNA is the preferred substrate of …

Contents Summary 1253 I. Introduction 1253 II. What is the rate and molecular spectrum of
spontaneous epimutations? 1254 III. Do spontaneous epimutations have phenotypic …

Trees are long‐lived organisms that continuously adapt to their environments, a process in
which epigenetic mechanisms are likely to play a key role. Via downregulation of the …

Recently interest in multi-generational epigenetic phenomena have been fuelled by highly
reproducible intergenerational and transgenerational inheritance paradigms in several …

Climate adaptation through phenotypic innovation will become the main challenge for plants
during global warming. Plants exhibit a plethora of mechanisms to achieve environmental …