ArticlePloS one2013
Cytosine methylation alteration in natural populations of Leymus chinensis induced by multiple abiotic stresses.
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- Chromatin-Based Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Abiotic Stress Response.Current genomics · 2016Article
- Adaptive Epigenetic Differentiation between Upland and Lowland Rice Ecotypes Revealed by Methylation-Sensitive Amplified Polymorphism.PloS one · 2016Article
- Stress induced gene expression drives transient DNA methylation changes at adjacent repetitive elements.eLife · 2015Article
- Analysis of DNA methylation of perennial ryegrass under drought using the methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP) technique.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2014Article
- Single-base-resolution methylomes of Populus trichocarpa reveal the association between DNA methylation and drought stress.BMC genetics · 2014Article
- Epigenetic control of mobile DNA as an interface between experience and genome change.Frontiers in genetics · 2014Review
- Stable MSAP markers for the distinction of Vitis vinifera cv Pinot noir clones.Molecular biotechnology · 2013Article
- Epigenetic mechanisms of plant stress responses and adaptation.Plant cell reports · 2013Review
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Abstract
backgroundHuman activity has a profound effect on the global environment and caused frequent occurrence of climatic fluctuations. To survive, plants need to adapt to the changing environmental conditions through altering their morphological and physiological traits. One known mechanism for phenotypic innovation to be achieved is environment-induced rapid yet inheritable epigenetic changes. Therefore, the use of molecular techniques to address the epigenetic mechanisms underpinning stress adaptation in plants is an important and challenging topic in biological research. In this study, we investigated the impact of warming, nitrogen (N) addition, and warming+nitrogen (N) addition stresses on the cytosine methylation status of Leymus chinensis Tzvel. at the population level by using the amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), methylation-sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) and retrotransposon based sequence-specific amplification polymorphism (SSAP) techniques. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL
findingsOur results showed that, although the percentages of cytosine methylation changes in SSAP are significantly higher than those in MSAP, all the treatment groups showed similar alteration patterns of hypermethylation and hypomethylation. It meant that the abiotic stresses have induced the alterations in cytosine methylation patterns, and the levels of cytosine methylation changes around the transposable element are higher than the other genomic regions. In addition, the identification and analysis of differentially methylated loci (DML) indicated that the abiotic stresses have also caused targeted methylation changes at specific loci and these DML might have contributed to the capability of plants in adaptation to the abiotic stresses. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Our results demonstrated that abiotic stresses related to global warming and nitrogen deposition readily evoke alterations of cytosine methylation, and which may provide a molecular basis for rapid adaptation by the affected plant populations to the changed environments.
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