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Horticulture Research 9,
Article number: uhac174 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhac174
Views: 361
Received: 14 Apr 2022
Accepted: 27 Jul 2022
Published online: 04 Aug 2022
Environmental stresses can result in a wide range of physiological and molecular responses in plants. These responses can also impact epigenetic information in genomes, especially at the level of DNA methylation (5-methylcytosine). DNA methylation is the hallmark heritable epigenetic modification and plays a key role in silencing transposable elements (TEs). Although DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic mechanism, fundamental aspects of its contribution to stress responses and adaptation remain obscure.