DNA methylation epigenetically silences crossover hot spots and controls chromosomal domains of meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis

Yelina et al. show that RNA-directed DNA methylation is sufficient to locally silence Arabidopsis euchromatic crossover hot spots and is associated with increased nucleosome density and H3K9me2. This work demonstrates that DNA methylation plays a key role in establishing domains of meiotic recombination along chromosomes.

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