Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41610255›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2026

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs.

Dawei Dai, Ken Chen, Jingwen Tao, Ben P Williams

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. The leaves fall, yet the tree endures.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Dawei DaiDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9942-0421
Ken ChenDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6712-994X
Jingwen TaoDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-8416-5068
Ben P WilliamsDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2002-1410

Funding

Identifying mechanisms underpinning epigenetic homeostasisR35GM154941 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Ben Williams · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM154941
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect rates of aging and organism life span in plants. In this work, we show that the short-lived model plant

Indexed as

ArabidopsisDNA MethylationEpigenesis, GeneticAgingArabidopsis ProteinsDNA Transposable ElementsGene Expression Regulation, PlantMeristemMutationPlant ShootsTranscription, GeneticArabidopsis ProteinsDNA Transposable Elements

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PMID41610255
PMCPMC13035181

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