Fig. 7
Expression of DNA methylation or demethylation-related DEGs between CONTROL and COLD. a-c Normalized counts of differentially expressed genes putatively involved in precursor synthesis (SAM2) or RdDM (a), maintenance or de novo CHH methylation (b), or active demethylation (c). Boxes in light grey represent values for all samples in CONTROL, dark grey represents values for all samples in the COLD-treated group. d-e Phylogenetic analysis of chromomethyltransferases (d) or bifunctional nucleases (e) of Beta vulgaris and Arabidopsis thaliana. f-g Heatmaps depicting transcript levels (DESeq2 normalized counts) of CMT-related (f) or DME/ROS-related (g) genes in all samples of CONTROL and COLD with high values in orange and low values in blue (white represents the median of normalized counts for genes depicted in the same heatmap). Bold geneIDs indicate differential expression between CONTROL and COLD (adjusted p-value ≤ .05, |Log2FoldChange| ≥ 1])