As sessile organisms, plants need to continuously adjust their responses to external stimuli
to cope with changing growth conditions. Since the seed dispersal range is often rather …

Crop diseases, in conjunction with climate change, are a major threat to global crop
production. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark and is involved in plants' biological …

DNA methylation can cause heritable phenotypic modifications in the absence of changes in
DNA sequence. Environmental stresses can trigger methylation changes and this may have …

Abiotic stresses such as drought, cold, heat, and salinity are major factors that limit plant
growth and development and account for a major loss in crop productivity worldwide. Thus …

Researchers are beginning to use wild plant populations to survey and assess cytosine
methylation polymorphisms in a population and ecological genetic framework. These …

Ecological Epigenetics studies the relationship between epigenetic variation and
ecologically relevant phenotypic variation. As molecular epigenetic mechanisms often …

Erosion of genetic diversity due to excessive breeding applications is a major threat to crop
species. Plants should be genetically diverse to cope with repercussions of changing …

Rapid genetic changes in plants have been reported in response to current climate change.
We assessed the capacity of trees in a natural forest to produce rapid acclimation responses …

Recent reports suggest that exposure to stress is capable of influencing the frequency and
pattern of inherited changes in various parts of the genome. In this review, we will discuss …

Background Geminiviruses are DNA plant viruses that cause highly damaging diseases
affecting crops worldwide. During the infection, geminiviruses hijack cellular processes …