Abstract
Epigenetic regulation in the plant genome is associated with the determination of expression patterns of various genes. Methylation of DNA at cytosine residues is one of the mechanisms of epigenetic regulation and has been a subject of various studies. Various techniques have been developed to analyze DNA methylation, most of which involve isolation of chromatin from cells and further in vitro studies. Limited techniques are available for in situ study of DNA methylation in plants. Here, we present such an in situ method for DNA methylation analysis which has high sensitivity and good reproducibility.
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Kathiria, P., Kovalchuk, I. (2017). In Situ Analysis of DNA Methylation in Plants. In: Kovalchuk, I. (eds) Plant Epigenetics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1456. Humana Press, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7708-3_7
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