As sessile species and without the possibility of escape, plants constantly face numerous
environmental stresses. To adapt in the external environmental cues, plants adjust …

Recent evidence sheds light on the peculiar type of plant intelligence. Plants have
developed complex molecular networks that allow them to remember, choose, and make …

Unlike animal behavior, behavior in plants is traditionally assumed to be completely
determined either genetically or environmentally. Under this assumption, plants are usually …

Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …

A growing number of non-human animal species are being seriously considered as
candidates for sentience, but plants are either forgotten or explicitly excluded from these …

Transgenerational effects (TGE) can modify phenotypes of offspring generations playing
thus a potentially important role in ecology and evolution of many plant species. These …

Epigenetics refers to chemical modifications of chromatin or transcribed DNA that can
influence gene activity and expression without changes in DNA sequence. The last 20 years …

The ongoing climate crisis represents a growing threat for plants and other organisms.
However, how and if plants will be able to adapt to future environmental conditions is still …

Environmentally induced epigenetic change enables plants to remember past
environmental interactions. If this memory capability is exploited to prepare plants for future …

Heritable epigenetic modifications may occur in response to environmental variation, further
altering phenotypes through gene regulation, without genome sequence changes. However …