Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an allotetraploid with closely related subgenomes
of a total size of ∼2.7 Gb. This makes the assembly of chromosomal pseudomolecules very …

Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …

In plants, CG DNA methylation is prevalent in the transcribed regions of many constitutively
expressed genes (gene body methylation; gbM), but the origin and function of gbM remain …

Background Although draft genomes are available for most agronomically important plant
species, the majority are incomplete, highly fragmented, and often riddled with assembly and …

Plant DNA methylation is its own language, interpreted by the cell to maintain silencing of
transposons, facilitate chromatin structure, and to ensure proper expression of some genes. …

Background The evolution of gene body methylation (gbM), its origins, and its functional
consequences are poorly understood. By pairing the largest collection of transcriptomes (>1000…

The nonmethylable cytosine analogs, 5-azacytidine and zebularine, are widely used to inhibit
DNA methyltransferase activity and reduce genomic DNA methylation. In this study, whole-…

Cytosine methylation is an important base modification that is inherited across mitotic and
meiotic cell divisions in plant genomes. Heritable methylation variants can contribute to within-…

Background Abscission is a mechanism by which plants shed entire organs in response to
both developmental and environmental signals. Arabidopsis thaliana, in which only the floral …

Allopolyploidisation merges evolutionarily distinct parental genomes (subgenomes) into a
single nucleus. A frequent observation is that one subgenome is ‘dominant’ over the other …