“…The key factors and molecular mechanisms behind these processes in plants have been widely studied for decades (reviewed in Du et al, 2015; Duan et al, 2018; Zhang et al, 2018b; Song et al, 2019; Chen et al, 2020b; He et al, 2021; Shang and He, 2022). Epigenetic mechanisms are involved in plant phenotypic plasticity during their development and in response to environmental cues, including seed development (Chinnusamy et al, 2008; Markulin et al, 2021; Ding et al, 2022), flowering (He et al, 2020; Luo and He, 2020), fruit development (Tang et al, 2020), and biotic and abiotic stress responses (Zhang et al, 2018b; Alonso et al, 2019; Ashapkin et al, 2020).…”