Silencing of transposable elements (TEs) is an essential process to maintain genomic integrity within the cell. In , together with canonical epigenetic pathways such as DNA methylation and modifications of histone tails, the plant mobile domain (PMD) proteins MAINTENANCE OF MERISTEMS (MAIN) and MAIN-LIKE 1 (MAIL1) are involved in TE silencing. In addition, the MICRORCHIDIA (MORC) ATPases, including MORC1, are important cellular factors repressing TEs. Here, we describe the genetic interaction and connection between the PMD and MORC pathways by showing that expression is impaired in and mutants. Transcriptomic analyses of higher order mutant plants combining and mutations, and mutants in which expression is restored, show that the silencing defects of a subset of TEs in mutants are most likely the consequence of down-regulation. Besides, a significant fraction of up-regulated TEs in mutants are not targeted by the MORC1 pathway.

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