Plants are sessile organisms that need to adapt to constantly changing environmental
conditions. Unpredictable climate change places plants under a variety of abiotic stresses …

Gene expression driven by developmental and stress cues often depends on nucleosome
histone post-translational modifications and sometimes on DNA methylation. A number of …

Cytosine DNA methylation (mC) is a genome modification that can regulate the expression
of coding and non-coding genetic elements. However, little is known about the involvement …

Plants respond to environmental conditions not only by plastic changes to their own
development and physiology, but also by altering the phenotypes expressed by their …

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 …

Main conclusion Plants develop both short-term and transgenerational memory of drought
stress through epigenetic regulation of transcription for a better response to subsequent …

Environmental stresses experienced by individual parents can influence offspring
phenotypes in ways that enhance survival under similar conditions. Although such adaptive …

Plants grow and develop by adjusting their physiology to changes in their environment.
Changes in the abiotic environment occur over years, seasons, and days, but also over …

Background Salinity is a major environmental factor limiting productivity of crop plants
including rice in which wide range of natural variability exists. Although recent evidences …

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 …