Table 2.
Pearson's correlation coefficient values between mPing stability and cytosine methylation levels at the CCGG sites of genomic regions immediately flanking the immobile copies of mPing in each or all three rice (ssp. indica) genotypes
| Methylation level at the CCGG sites flanking immobile mPing copies | |||||
| Genotype | mPing stability | CG (%) | CHG (%) | ||
| 5'-flank | 3'-flank | 5'-flank | 3'-flank | ||
| V14 | Stability | 0.727* | 0.355 | 0.861* | 0.120 |
| V27 | Stability | 0.872* | 0.803* | 0.782* | 0.415 |
| R09 | Stability | 0.856* | 0.837* | 0.474 | 0.586 |
| All | Stability | 0.852** | 0.665** | 0.724** | 0.323 |
*Significant at the 0.05 statistic level **Significant at the 0.01 statistic level