Although flowering plants and mammals have distinct life cycles and developmental programs, epigenetic information in both plant and mammalian cells is faithfully inherited across mitotic cell division. In mammals, epigenetic reprograming is a prominent process that is re-established in the zygote and germ line during early development. By contrast, plants do not produce germ cells until later in development. This difference, along with the many examples of the transmission of stable epialleles in plants, suggests that epigenetic reprograming in plants and mammals occurs via distinct mechanisms. In this review, we highlight recent advances in genome-wide epigenetic analyses in plants. These analyses provide insight into dynamic epigenetic regulation in plants and reveal unique processes that maintain genome integrity during plant sexual reproduction.

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表观遗传学和植物繁殖：负责任地处理继承的多个步骤。

尽管开花植物和哺乳动物具有不同的生命周期和发育程序，但植物和哺乳动物细胞中的表观遗传信息在有丝分裂细胞分裂过程中忠实地遗传。在哺乳动物中，表观遗传重编程是一个突出的过程，在早期发育过程中在受精卵和生殖系中重新建立。相比之下，植物直到发育后期才产生生殖细胞。这种差异以及在植物中传递稳定表观等位基因的许多例子表明，植物和哺乳动物中的表观遗传重编程是通过不同的机制发生的。在这篇综述中，我们重点介绍了植物全基因组表观遗传分析的最新进展。