Article
Epigenetics and plant evolution.
The New phytologist - 1 Oct 2005
Rapp Ryan A, Wendel Jonathan F
Abstract excerpt
A fundamental precept of evolutionary biology is that natural selection acts on phenotypes determined by DNA sequence variation within natural populations. Recent advances in our understanding of gene regulation, however, have elucidated a spectrum of epigenetic molecular phenomena capable of alt...
Topics
- Biological Evolution
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Plant
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Genetic Variation
- Plants
- Ploidies
- RNA, Plant