In contrast to the majority of animal species, plants are sessile organisms and are, therefore,
constantly challenged by environmental perturbations. Over the past few decades, our …

Over the past decade there has been a greater understanding of genomic complexity in
eukaryotes ushered in by the immense technological advances in high-throughput …

DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification required for transposable element (TE)
silencing, genome stability, and genomic imprinting. Although DNA methylation has been …

Seeds are complex structures that consist of the embryo, endosperm, and seed-coat regions
that are of different ontogenetic origins, and each region can be further divided into …

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon leading to parentally biased gene
expression. Throughout the years, extensive efforts have been made to characterize the …

Apomixis is a form of reproduction leading to clonal seeds and offspring that are genetically
identical to the maternal plant. While apomixis naturally occurs in hundreds of plant species …

Epigenetic inheritance is fundamentally important to cellular differentiation and
developmental plasticity. In this review, we provide an introduction to the field of molecular …

Gene silencing is a negative feedback mechanism that regulates gene expression to define
cell fate and also regulates metabolism and gene expression throughout the life of an …

Seeds develop differently in dicots and monocots, especially with respect to the major
storage organs. High-resolution transcriptome data have provided the first insights into the …

Imprinted gene expression occurs during seed development in plants and is associated with
differential DNA methylation of parental alleles, particularly at proximal transposable …