ReviewFrontiers in plant science2018
DNA Methylation and the Evolution of Developmental Complexity in Plants.
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- Gene body methylation regulates gene expression and mediates phenotypic diversity in natural Arabidopsis populations.Nature plants · 2025Article
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- Genomic and epigenomic insight into giga-chromosome architecture and adaptive evolution of royal lily (Lilium regale).Nature communications · 2025Article
- Epigenetic differences between wild and cultivated grapevines highlight the contribution of DNA methylation during crop domestication.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
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- Methylomes as key features for predicting recombination in some plant species.Plant molecular biology · 2024Article
- Differentially methylated genomic regions of lettuce seeds relate to divergence across morphologically distinct horticultural types.AoB PLANTS · 2023Article
- Pangenome analyses reveal impact of transposable elements and ploidy on the evolution of potato species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Methylation in the CHH Context Allows to Predict Recombination in Rice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- The renaissance and enlightenment of Marchantia as a model system.The Plant cell · 2022Article
- Plant DNA Methylation: An Epigenetic Mark in Development, Environmental Interactions, and Evolution.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Genome-wide characterization of i-motifs and their potential roles in the stability and evolution of transposable elements in rice.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- Genome-wide locus-specific DNA methylation repatterning may facilitate rapid evolution of mercury resistance in rice.Genes & genomics · 2022Article
- Epigenetic regulation of salinity stress responses in cereals.Molecular biology reports · 2022Review
- Plant Responses to Biotic Stress: Old Memories Matter.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
All land plants so far examined use DNA methylation to silence transposons (TEs). DNA methylation therefore appears to have been co-opted in evolution from an original function in TE management to a developmental function (gene regulation) in both phenotypic plasticity and in normal development. The significance of DNA methylation to the evolution of developmental complexity in plants lies in its role in the management of developmental pathways. As such it is more important in fine tuning the presence, absence, and placement of organs rather than having a central role in the evolution of new organs. Nevertheless, its importance should not be underestimated as it contributes considerably to the range of phenotypic expression and complexity available to plants: the subject of the emerging field of epi-evodevo. Furthermore, changes in DNA methylation can function as a "soft" mutation that may be important in the early stages of major evolutionary novelty.
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