Plant mitochondria–past, present and future

IM Møller, AG Rasmusson, O Van Aken - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study of plant mitochondria started in earnest around 1950 with the first isolations of
mitochondria from animal and plant tissues. The first 35 years were spent establishing the …

Deep inside the epigenetic memories of stressed plants

P Gallusci, DR Agius, PN Moschou, J Dobránszki… - Trends in Plant …, 2023 - cell.com
Recent evidence sheds light on the peculiar type of plant intelligence. Plants have
developed complex molecular networks that allow them to remember, choose, and make …

Epigenetics for crop improvement in times of global change

I Kakoulidou, EV Avramidou, M Baránek… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous,
biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …

In response to abiotic stress, DNA methylation confers epigenetic changes in plants

Z Akhter, Z Bi, K Ali, C Sun, S Fiaz, FU Haider, J Bai - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Epigenetics involves the heritable changes in patterns of gene expression determined by
developmental and abiotic stresses, ie, drought, cold, salinity, trace metals, and heat. Gene …

Epigenetic stress memory: A new approach to study cold and heat stress responses in plants

M Ramakrishnan, Z Zhang, S Mullasseri… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Understanding plant stress memory under extreme temperatures such as cold and heat
could contribute to plant development. Plants employ different types of stress memories …

Small DNA methylation, big player in plant abiotic stress responses and memory

J Liu, Z He - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
DNA methylation is a conserved epigenetic mark that plays important roles in maintaining
genome stability and regulating gene expression. As sessile organisms, plants have …

MSH1-induced heritable enhanced growth vigor through grafting is associated with the RdDM pathway in plants

H Kundariya, X Yang, K Morton, R Sanchez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Plants transmit signals long distances, as evidenced in grafting experiments that create
distinct rootstock-scion junctions. Noncoding small RNA is a signaling molecule that is graft …

MSH1 is required for maintenance of the low mutation rates in plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes

Z Wu, G Waneka, AK Broz, CR King… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Mitochondrial and plastid genomes in land plants exhibit some of the slowest rates of
sequence evolution observed in any eukaryotic genome, suggesting an exceptional ability …

Deciphering the epigenetic alphabet involved in transgenerational stress memory in crops

V Mladenov, V Fotopoulos, E Kaiserli… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although epigenetic modifications have been intensely investigated over the last decade
due to their role in crop adaptation to rapid climate change, it is unclear which epigenetic …

Plastids: diving into their diversity, their functions, and their role in plant development

J Sierra, L Escobar-Tovar, P Leon - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plastids are a group of essential, heterogenous semi-autonomous organelles characteristic
of plants that perform photosynthesis and a diversity of metabolic pathways that impact …