The function of plant genomes depends on chromatin marks such as the methylation of DNA
and the post-translational modification of histones. Techniques for studying model plants …

The mechanisms by which flowering plants choose their mating partners have interested
researchers for a long time. Recent findings on the molecular mechanisms of non-self …

DNA methylation can cause heritable phenotypic modifications in the absence of changes in
DNA sequence. Environmental stresses can trigger methylation changes and this may have …

Self-incompatibility (SI) mechanisms prevent self-fertilization in flowering plants based on
specific discrimination between self-and non-self pollen. Since this trait promotes …

Plants have evolved diverse self-incompatibility (SI) systems for outcrossing. Since Darwin's
time, considerable progress has been made toward elucidating this unrivaled reproductive …

DNA methylation is a type of epigenetic marking that strongly influences chromatin structure
and gene expression in plants and mammals. Over the past decade, DNA methylation has …

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance (TEI), which is the inheritance of expression states
and thus traits that are not determined by the DNA sequence, is often postulated but the …

Cytosine bases are extensively methylated in the DNA of plant genomes. DNA methylation
has been implicated in the silencing of transposable elements and genes, and loss of …

Imprinted gene expression—the biased expression of alleles dependent on their parent of
origin—is an important type of epigenetic gene regulation in flowering plants and mammals …

A diploid organism has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent. The
expression of two inherited alleles is sometimes biased by the effects known as …