The large mitochondrial genomes of angiosperms are unusually dynamic because of
recombination activities involving repeated sequences. These activities generate …

Eukaryotic cells require orchestrated communication between nuclear and organellar
genomes, perturbations in which are linked to stress response and disease in both animals …

Epigenetics is defined as changes in gene expression that are not associated with changes
in DNA sequence but due to the result of methylation of DNA and post-translational …

Heterosis or hybrid vigor is a phenomenon where hybrid progeny have superior
performance compared to their parental inbred lines. This is important in the use of F 1 …

A growing number of reports indicate that plants possess the ability to maintain a memory of
stress exposure throughout their ontogenesis and even transmit it faithfully to the following …

Maintenance of genomic integrity is critical for the perpetuation of all forms of life including
humans. Living organisms are constantly exposed to stress from internal metabolic …

Plant phenotypes respond to environmental change, an adaptive capacity that is at least
partly transgenerational. However, epigenetic components of this interplay are difficult to …

Epigenetic variation has been associated with a wide range of adaptive phenotypes in
plants, but there exist few direct means for exploiting this variation. RNA i suppression of the …

The widely distributed MutS gene family functions in recombination, DNA repair, and protein
translation. Multiple evolutionary processes have expanded this gene family in plants …

Evidence is compelling in support of a naturally occurring epigenetic influence on
phenotype expression in land plants, although discerning the epigenetic contribution is …