[PROVISIONAL] Identification of histone methylation modifiers and their expression patterns during somatic embryogenesis in Hevea brasiliensis

Abstract Histone methylation plays a crucial role in various biological processes including from heterochromatin formation to transcriptional regulation. Currently, no information is available regarding histone methylation modifiers in the important rubber-producing plant Hevea brasiliensis. Here, we identified 47 histone methyltransferase (HMT) genes and 25 histone demethylase (HDM) genes, as possible members of the histone methylation modifiers in the rubber tree genome. According to the structural features of HMT and HDM, the HbHMTs were classified to two groups (HbPRMs and HbSDGs), the HbH...