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Epigenetic regulation in plant responses to the environment.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology - 2 Sept 2014
Baulcombe David C, Dean Caroline
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In this article, we review environmentally mediated epigenetic regulation in plants using two case histories. One of these, vernalization, mediates adaptation of plants to different environments and it exemplifies processes that are reset in each generation. The other, virus-induced silencing, involves transgenerationally inherited epigenetic modifications. Heritable epigenetic marks may result in heritable...
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