Table 4. Criteria by which patterns of polymorphic methylated sites were judged.
Methylation patterns | hypermethylationpolymorphism site (HPS) | demethylationpolymorphism site (DPS) | uncertainpolymorphism site (UPS) | ||||||||||
Parental plants* | EM | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | − | + |
EH | + | − | − | + | + | − | − | − | + | + | − | + | |
Progeny* | EM | + | − | + | − | + | − | − | + | − | + | + | − |
EH | − | + | − | + | − | + | − | + | − | + | + | − |
EM, EcoR I+Msp I; EH, EcoR I+Hpa II; -, band absent; +, band present.