The study reveals that a plant's current nutrient environment has a stronger influence on its traits than the nutrient environment of its ancestors, shedding light on how plants adapt and evolve under changing...
Tag - Epigenetics
Dale Maylea
Plants remember how much warmer than usual it was last year
Stress memories using epigenetics are helping plants adapt to climate change.
Eurekalert
Rapid changes in seed dispersal traits may modify plant responses to global change
When climatic or environmental conditions change, plant populations must either adapt to these new conditions, or track their niche via seed dispersal. Adaptation of plants to different abiotic environments has mostly...
William Salter
Global 5-methylcytosine alterations in DNA during ageing of seeds
This study finds that DNA methylation and 5-methylcytosine play key roles in determining the ageing and viability of stored recalcitrant seeds.
botanyone
Apple Epigenetics
Apple epigenetics might explain CO2 injury, which can cause major losses of fruit during storage.
AJ Cann
Techniques used to modify a plant genome also affect its epigenome
Genetically modified plants are usually produced using tissue culture, but techniques used to modify a plant genome also affect its epigenome.
Epigenetic floral variant of clonal oil palm (Review)
The mantled somaclonal variation of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) hampers oil production as the supernumerary female organs are either sterile or produce fruits with poor oil yields. Jaligot et al. provide an overview of...
Italian Genetics Societies in Assisi: staple foods and orphan crops via epigenomics and systems biology
The three Genetics Societies in Italy – AGI, SIBV and SIGA – held a strong joint conference in Assisi in September. With 500 people and 300 posters, the major sessions were on topical issues such as epigenetics and...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Q: What do plant fertilization, diurnal rhythms and hybrid vigour all have in common?
A: They are all connected by Epigenetics. Presenting the first Annals of Botany Special Seminar* at the Plant Sciences Department at Oxford University on March 31st, Professor Jeff Chen (University of Texas) explained...
Hugh Dickinson
