Epigenetic activation of meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis centromeres via loss of H3K9me2 and non-CG DNA methylation
Charles J. Underwood, Kyuha Choi, Christophe Lambing, Xiaohui Zhao, Heïdi Serra, Filipe Borges, Joe Simorowski, Evan Ernst, Yannick Jacob, Ian R. Henderson, Robert A. Martienssen
This study shows that disrupting H3K9me2 and non-CG DNA methylation in Arabidopsis increases meiotic DSBs in centromeres and crossovers in pericentromeric heterochromatin.
Genome Research · Apr 1, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics