DNA Methylation Diversification at the Integrated Organellar DNA-Like Sequence.

ABSTRACT: Plants have a lot of diversity in epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation in their natural populations or cultivars. Although many studies observing the epigenetic diversity within and among species have been reported, the mechanisms how these variations are generated are still not clear. In addition to the de novo spontaneous epi-mutation, the intra- and inter-specific crossing can also cause a change of epigenetic modifications in their progenies. Here we report an example of diversification of DNA methylation by crossing and succeeding selfing. We traced the inheritance pattern of epigenetic modification during the crossing experiment between two natural strains Columbia (Col), and Landsberg electa (Ler) in model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to observe the in

SUBMITTER: Yoshida T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6316516 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature