Anurag Daware, Jitendra K Mohanty, Laxmi Narnoliya, Akansha Singh, Deepanshi Rathore, Virevol Thakro, Aleena Francis, Nagendra Pratap Singh, Philip Francis, Shailesh Tripathi, Debasis Chattopadhyay, Swarup K Parida
Genetic diversity and environmental factors are long believed to be the dominant contributor to phenotypic diversity in crop plants. However, it has been recently established that, besides genetic variation, epigenetic variation, especially variation in DNA methylation, plays a significant role in determining phenotypic diversity in crop plants. Therefore, assessing DNA methylation diversity in crop plants becomes vital, especially in the case of crops like chickpea, which has a narrow genetic base. Thus, in the present study, we employed whole-genome bisulfite sequencing to assess DNA methylation diversity in wild and cultivated (desi and kabuli) chickpea...
May 4, 2024: DNA Research: An International Journal for Rapid Publication of Reports on Genes and Genomes