“…Three major types of epigenetic marks or signatures include DNA methylation, histone modifications, and small RNAs. During DNA methylation, the methyl groups get covalently bound to cytosine nucleotides (5 mC) (Bartels et al, 2018;Gomez-Cabellos et al, 2022) and along with covalent modifications like methylation, acetylation, and phosphorylation in histone proteins regulate the local chromatin landscape (Zhu et al, 2021;Tian et al, 2022). Non-coding small RNAs such as microRNAs play a significant role in post-transcriptional regulation directing DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling at their target loci (Bossdorf et al, 2008;Robertson and Wolf, 2012;Bond and Baulcombe, 2014;Ariel and Manavella, 2021).…”