ArticleHorticulture research2021
Grafting vigour is associated with DNA de-methylation in eggplant.
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- DNA methylation in plant heterosis: mechanisms and prospects.Functional & integrative genomics · 2025Review
- Here comes the sun: integration of light, temperature, and auxin during herbaceous plant grafting.Planta · 2025Review
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- Modern and historical uses of plant grafting to engineer development, stress tolerance, chimeras, and hybrids.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025Review
- Grafting enhances drought stress tolerance by regulating the proteome and targeted gene regulatory networks in tomato.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Translocation of green fluorescent protein in homo- and hetero-transgrafted plants.Plant biotechnology (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Article
- Grafting based DNA methylation alteration of snoRNAs in upland cotton (Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2024Article
- Reprogramming of DNA methylation and changes of gene expression in graftedFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Global hypermethylation of the N6-methyladenosine RNA modification associated with apple heterografting.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- Study on the Applications and Regulatory Mechanisms of Grafting on Vegetables.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The role of DNA methylation in the maintenance of phenotypic variation induced by grafting chimerism inHorticulture research · 2023Article
- A Compendium for Novel Marker-Based Breeding Strategies in Eggplant.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Long distance signalling and epigenetic changes in crop grafting.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Grafting enhances plants drought resistance: Current understanding, mechanisms, and future perspectives.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
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Abstract
In horticulture, grafting is a popular technique used to combine positive traits from two different plants. This is achieved by joining the plant top part (scion) onto a rootstock which contains the stem and roots. Rootstocks can provide resistance to stress and increase plant production, but despite their wide use, the biological mechanisms driving rootstock-induced alterations of the scion phenotype remain largely unknown. Given that epigenetics plays a relevant role during distance signalling in plants, we studied the genome-wide DNA methylation changes induced in eggplant (Solanum melongena) scion using two interspecific rootstocks to increase vigour. We found that vigour was associated with a change in scion gene expression and a genome-wide hypomethylation in the CHH context. Interestingly, this hypomethylation correlated with the downregulation of younger and potentially more active long terminal repeat retrotransposable elements (LTR-TEs), suggesting that graft-induced epigenetic modifications are associated with both physiological and molecular phenotypes in grafted plants. Our results indicate that the enhanced vigour induced by heterografting in eggplant is associated with epigenetic modifications, as also observed in some heterotic hybrids.
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