In recent years, a truly impressive number of advances in genetics and genomics have
greatly enhanced our understanding of structural and functional aspects of plant genomes …

Plant tissue culture uses the genetic potential, or totipotency, of plants to regenerate and
give rise to a whole plant. Tissue culture-derived plants are expected to have identical …

Epigenetics and Plant Breeding Page 1 c02_1 08/02/2007 49 2 Epigenetics and Plant
Breeding Athanasios S. Tsaftaris Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding Auth Thessaloniki …

Somaclonal and phenotypic variation caused by genetic and/or epigenetic modifications,
are a valuable source of genetic variation to improve desirable polygenetic traits in crops. In …

Functional marker (FM) development across plant species requires common allelic
sequences that affect phenotypic variation in the same way. The identification of orthologous …

Renewable sources of energy are now necessary in view of the depleting fossil fuel
reserves. Biodiesel is an attractive alternative to fossil oil. However, this type of energy is …

Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Ness is a grass with a particular apomictic embryo sac
development called Eragrostis type. Apomixis is a type of asexual reproduction that …

Plant epigenetics has become one of the hottest topics of research not only as a subject of
basic research but also as a possible new source of beneficial traits for plant breeding. In …

Epigenetic variation is one of the many consequences of wide hybridization and polyploidy.
We have investigated changes in the epigenetic landscapes following re-synthesis of …

Plants exhibit a polymorphism of DNA methylation status in their genomes in relation to
various breeding traits and phenotypes. Evidence for relationships between DNA …