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Epigenetic regulation during rice domestication and de-domestication

Cao et al. investigate the role of epigenetic variation in rice domestication and de-domestication. The Plant Cell (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad160 By Shuai Cao1,2 and Qingxin Song1 1 State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University,…

DNA demethylation is important for imprinted gene expression in maize endosperm but may do more

Gent et al. characterize a classical maize mutant and find insights into genomic imprinting and DNA methylation in endosperm Jonathan I. Gent, Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA  Background: In 1970, Jerry Kermicle reported that maize kernels could have…