Control of Development and Transposon Movement by DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana
- T. KAKUTANI,
- M. KATO,
- T. KINOSHITA, and
- A. MIURA
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In both vertebrates and plants, mutations abolishingDNA methylation induce developmental abnormalities,which often accompany perturbation of transcription (forreview, see Richards 1997; Habu et al. 2001; Li 2002). Aunique feature in plants is that the induced epigeneticchanges are often inherited over multiple generations evenafter introduction into a wild-type background (for review,see Martienssen 1998; Kakutani 2002). This feature has facilitated identification of plant genes controlled by DNAmethylation through conventional genetic linkage analysis.Tissue-specific as well as parent-of-origin-specific transcriptional control by DNA methylation can be studied further using Arabidopsis mutants affecting epigenetic states...
