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 …
Simple Summary Research on plant epigenetics aims to understand how endogenous, biotic, and abiotic factors regulate plant development and growth independent of changes in …
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 …
Understanding plant stress memory under extreme temperatures such as cold and heat could contribute to plant development. Plants employ different types of stress memories …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …