An Inverted Repeat Triggers Cytosine Methylation of Identical Sequences in Arabidopsis

Targeted mutation of the DNA methyltransferase gene results in embryonic lethality

1992 • 3,907 citations

A genomic sequencing protocol that yields a positive display of 5-methylcytosine residues in individual DNA strands.

1992 • 3,099 citations

BinaryAgrobacteriumvectors for plant transformation

1984 • 2,178 citations

Alterations in DNA Methylation: A Fundamental Aspect of Neoplasia

1997 • 1,960 citations

Cytosine methylation and the ecology of intragenomic parasites

1997 • 1,906 citations

RNA-directed de novo methylation of genomic sequences in plants

1994 • 929 citations

Repeat-induced gene silencing in mammals

1998 • 884 citations

EIR1, a root-specific protein involved in auxin transport, is required for gravitropism inArabidopsis thaliana

1998 • 804 citations

Reduced DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana results in abnormal plant development.

1996 • 705 citations

PREMEIOTIC INSTABILITY OF REPEATED SEQUENCES IN NEUROSPORA CRASSA

1990 • 648 citations

How and Why Do Plants Inactivate Homologous (Trans)genes?

1995 • 518 citations

Expansions of transgene repeats cause heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in Drosophila

1994 • 506 citations

Demethylation-Induced Developmental Pleiotropy in Arabidopsis

1996 • 450 citations

Hypermethylated SUPERMAN Epigenetic Alleles in Arabidopsis

1997 • 428 citations

DNA methylation in plants

1987 • 373 citations

Developmental abnormalities and epimutations associated with DNA hypomethylation mutations.

1996 • 371 citations

DNA methylation and imprinting: why bother?

1997 • 370 citations

Creation of genomic methylation patterns

1996 • 313 citations

Epigenetic control of an endogenous gene family is revealed by a novel blue fluorescent mutant of arabidopsis

1995 • 242 citations

Homology-dependent gene silencing in transgenic plants: epistatic silencing loci contain multiple copies of methylated transgenes

1994 • 233 citations

Production of aberrant promoter transcripts contributes to methylation and silencing of unlinked homologous promoters in trans

1999 • 228 citations

RNA and the Epigenetic Regulation of X Chromosome Inactivation

1998 • 227 citations

The DNA methylation locusDDM1 is required for maintenance of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

1998 • 223 citations

Differences in DNA‐methylation are associated with a paramutation phenomenon in transgenic petunia

1993 • 219 citations

Molecular mechanisms in the developmental regulation of the maize Suppressor-mutator transposable element.

1988 • 207 citations

DNA methylation inhibits elongation but not initiation of transcription in Neurospora crassa

1997 • 202 citations

De novomethylation and co-suppression induced by a cytoplasmically replicating plant RNA virus

1998 • 195 citations

Evidence for cytosine methylation of non-symmetrical sequences in transgenic Petunia hybrida.

1994 • 193 citations

Suppression of crossing-over by DNA methylation in Ascobolus

1998 • 190 citations

Epigenetic phenomena in filamentous fungi: useful paradigms or repeat-induced confusion?

1997 • 180 citations

Post‐transcriptional silencing of chalcone synthase in Petunia by inverted transgene repeats

1997 • 180 citations

Release of epigenetic gene silencing by trans-acting mutations in Arabidopsis

1998 • 157 citations

Paramutation and transgene silencing: a common response to invasive DNA?

1996 • 139 citations

A Gene Essential for De Novo Methylation and Development in Ascobolus Reveals a Novel Type of Eukaryotic DNA Methyltransferase Structure

1997 • 134 citations

RIGS (repeat-induced gene silencing) in Arabidopsis is transcriptional and alters chromatin configuration.

1996 • 126 citations

Cytosine methylation of repeated sequences in eukaryotes: the role of DNA pairing

1998 • 121 citations

Methylation induced premeiotically in Ascobolus: coextension with DNA repeat lengths and effect on transcript elongation.

1993 • 120 citations

Coordinate suppression of mutations caused by Robertson's mutator transposons in maize.

1994 • 117 citations

Dense Nonsymmetrical DNA Methylation Resulting from Repeat-Induced Point Mutation in Neurospora

1993 • 110 citations

Variegated phenotype and developmental methylation changes of a maize allele originating from epimutation.

1994 • 109 citations

Organization of paramutagenicity in R-stippled maize.

1995 • 86 citations

Somatic inactivation and reactivation of Ac associated with changes in cytosine methylation and transposase expression.

1994 • 74 citations

A maize Myb homolog is encoded by a multicopy gene complex

1998 • 61 citations

Perpetuation of Cytosine Methylation in Ascobolus immersus Implies a Novel Type of Maintenance Methylase

1994 • 56 citations

Genetics of homology‐dependent gene silencing in Arabidopsis; a role for methylation

1997 • 48 citations

Methylation of DNA Repeats of Decreasing Sizes in Ascobolus immersus

1996 • 35 citations