Drexel A. Neumann

TL;DR: Functional analyses of parasitic plant strigolactone receptors in transgenic Arabidopsis suggested that convergent evolution has occurred to allow the parasitic plants to detect their hosts, and it was observed that KAI2, but not D14, is present at higher copy numbers in parasitic species than in nonparasitic relatives.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the dynamic interplay between forward and backward epimutations is modulated by genomic context and show that subtle contextual differences have profoundly shaped patterns of methylation diversity in A. thaliana natural populations over evolutionary timescales.

TL;DR: Expression-dependent forms of RdDM function to critically target DNA methylation to full-length and transcriptionally active transposable elements, suggesting that these pathways are key to suppressing mobilization.

TL;DR: A next-generation sequencing method that rapidly and cost efficiently reveals the genome-wide locations of 4mC for bacterial species with an available assembled reference genome to study the methylation of a member of the hyperthermophilc genus, Caldicellulosiruptor.

TL;DR: These genome-wide maps provide evidence for the existence of silent epialleles in plant genomes which, once identified, can be targeted for reactivation leading to phenotypic variation.