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Arabidopsis MSH1 mutation alters the epigenome and produces heritable changes in plant growth.
Nature communications - 27 Feb 2015
Virdi Kamaldeep S, Laurie John D, Xu Ying-Zhi, Yu Jiantao, Shao Mon-Ray, Sanchez Robersy, Kundariya Hardik, Wang Dong, Riethoven Jean-Jack M, Wamboldt Yashitola, Arrieta-Montiel Maria P, Shedge Vikas, Mackenzie Sally A
Abstract excerpt
Plant phenotypes respond to environmental change, an adaptive capacity that is at least partly transgenerational. However, epigenetic components of this interplay are difficult to measure. Depletion of the nuclear-encoded protein MSH1 causes dramatic and heritable changes in plant development, and here we show that crossing these altered plants with isogenic wild type produces epi-lines with heritable, enhanced...
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